The great public knows Raimondo De Sangro particularly in light of the famous Chapel St. Severus of Naples. In that place were arranged, by Raymond and his ancestors, a truly remarkable amount of neoclassical statues of outstanding quality. Also in the area below the chapel, there is a room where they kept two "experiments" science of the Prince of San Severo, consisting of two chemically coagulated arterial and venous systems and perfectly preserved (on which there are still doubts and controversy, never completely dissolved) .
The emotional impact, and with the extraordinary statues of the chapel with the area below that is really special, and anyone who has been to Naples to visit it will not easily forget this vision, even though it was completely empty stomach alchemy, Freemasonry, and Hermeticism in various ways. Some consider this work, and especially the symbolic description of "virtue," as that derived from the text by Cesare Ripa in the reprint was prepared by the Di Sangro, but the symbolic apparatus is extremely larger than the present and perhaps sums up in this text, in a dress wisely silent, all searches of Di Sangro in one apparatus and grand memorial. The depiction of the terrible "Cecco di Sangro (whose body was dismembered into seven parts) leaving the tomb, armed with sword and assisted by two griffins and armed with an eagle lightning, it is very likely to reflect on the myths of resurrection transitati nei “Misteri Osiridei” di cui si parla più diffusamente in questo testo. Come ci fa notare Galliano, la quantità delle opere di Di Sangro a noi pervenute integre è abbastanza scarsa (9 su 19). Ad esempio (a parte le varie opere sull’arte della guerra) saremmo assai curiosi di conoscere il contenuto della “Dissertazione intorno agli errori di Benedetto Spinoza” o i “Dialoghi critici intorno alla vita di Maometto” o, soprattutto la “Vera cagione produttrice della Luce” che, a quanto pare, conteneva secondo Origlia, uno studio sul primo capitolo del Genesi secondo un sistema cabalistico.
Esiste da sempre una conflittualità “ideologica” that drives the members of the Masons at including all actions of the prince in the logic of "lodges" and emphasized to his membership in the order, in virtue of the fact, objectively proven, of having been himself the founder of one or more "lodges". But the element that is usually overlooked is the extraordinary wisdom of "Don Ramon" the whole spiritual path and the particular circumstances in which it held its existence. And this is regardless of its adhesion to the masonry or by his refusal and expulsion from it.
One of the many merits of this book is the analysis of this complicated intersection between the various strands of the fabric "sealed" the sixteenth and seventeenth century, where a series of special characters, by Cagliostro to Santinelli, from De Sangro to Christina of Sweden, will take turns to propose, in verse as the Santinelli, or prose , a quantity of research, scientific advice, to "discoveries", still heavily based on research in alchemy, and more balance between mysticism and science. These adventures of the mind and soul, in which famous scientists did not disdain engage in astrology or alchemy (maintaining that relationship between science and spirituality that is disintegrating gradually went their own from the decades leading up the upheavals of the French Revolution) where special leave testimonials hermetic philosophy are hidden behind the imposing appearance of a symbolic choreography. One need only recall the famous "gardens" that were the obsession of the aristocracy learned of France and Italy, and some "miraculous rooms" where it was stored under a symbolic key, the result of years of research, studies and drug investigations often hard put to try out the economic resources of clients (such as the Colonna, Farnese s) or drained them (like the Orsini Bomarzo).
Some very interesting work of Di Sangro dedicated to the pursuit of "light" that is fulfilled in three texts, one of which only come down to us. That the "perpetual light" was a philosophical inquiry, but also "chemistry", which commits the Prince in many experiments, mixing organic and inorganic substances in order to find the mysterious light that was thought of as knowledge of the "old" and that, in several terms, was also addressed by Fludd, by Santinelli (see comment by A. Lie Partini M) and Vaughan.
undoubtedly important and original research on "historical" of the famous rituals contained in the "Arcana Arcanorum" of which there are quotations reliable only very recently (Ragon in 1844). But since the possession of such rituals gave rise to conflicts between the variants Judeo Christian and so-called "pagan" became equally harsh criticism about their ancestry to the Principe Di Sangro and subsidiaries in more or less legitimate custodians who claimed to possess. Particularly interesting is the analysis being conducted on the possible relationship with "degrees" of initiation of Arcana Arcanorum and the "Book of what is nell'Amduat" (one of the most ancient Egyptian wisdom texts and is offered in full present in the tomb of Seti I °)). Galiano shows a number of parallels with the "travel" initiation of Pharaoh. That knowledge is transmitted only through the reading of the figures, before the decipherment of hieroglyphics during Napoleon's campaign, or rather that there existed a real occult and uninterrupted transmission is obviously not certified. But the parallels are striking.
In this text, you also face the complicated relationships between the recently formed Masonic Order "renaissance" and the fringes of wisdom that can not be simplistically framed as "Masonic." For this reason, they are taken into account much of the historical traces of the Hellenistic-Egyptian ancestry, which gave rise to the rites, called Isis and osiridei. The quarrels and disputes among the various lodges, for the record on certain rituals or for the legitimacy of the current membership, were also very strong in the first half of the 17th and 18th century and Galiano us news and traces the different modes of election Much of rite in Hierophants Misraim, and very sad story of Freemasonry in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, whose principal members were put to death by fellow Englishmen. The material examined is really vast and, as stated in the same Galliano, you find very often in situations in which the historicity of an event or a "transmission" clash with the meta, and the offspring (a times as likely, others improbable) from strands of initiation more or less legitimate and archaic. Moreover, in the early 1800's a cross between a Masonic Renaissance and strongly opposed the revolutionary movements, which will be among the circles of inspiration carbonara (Justinian and Philip Lebano, mouthpieces, etc.). And those of traditional inspiration, is formed more than a few disagreements. A few "subsidiaries" may be considered historically demonstrable, others are perhaps a bit 'less. Have become much more confusing the origins and diaspora of the Brotherhood of Myriam and Therapeutics Osirideo Egyptian Order that have continued to this day. The diatribes, anything but read between real exponents and presumed related or unrelated to Freemasonry, has made that what is left, it was sometimes "score" with anything but the spirit of philosophy but by causes, proclamations, official documents and so on. This certainly was not very healthy to the name of brotherhood, and confirmed even more the fact that those who were truly keepers of a certain tradition, they have come to take the silence, leaving the blower, the habit of burning coal and unnecessarily sow the wind.
Paul Galiano, Raimondo De Sangro and Arcana Arcanorum , Symmetry 2011
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