Master Athanasius Kircher🌹

Master Athanasius Kircher🌹 Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.🌹 "It is not what we do that Sanctifies us, but we must Sanctify what we do." (Eckhart🌹) Very early in the morning, as the first rays of the sun rise vigorously, a procession of nine hooded monks walk slowly and with some difficulty towards the steep top of the mountain. They are the famous mountains of the Lazio region on Mount Prenestini, a beautiful and solitary place, in which the archaeological site of the old church of the Marian Sanctuary of La Mentorella south of Rome stands out. This interesting and legendary place is, according to tradition, the exact site of the visionary conversion of the Cross of St. Eustatius. In the distance, Jesuit monks can be seen carrying -1680- a purple urn or reliquary where a noble and pure heart is carefully deposited and 'smelling' embalmed with aromatic plants. They walk slowly, slowly and ceremonially towards the small village of Guadagnolo, methodically carrying the relics by mule through a narrow path that is long and difficult to access. They climb crestfallen and melancholy directly to the sanctuary on their last "journey of ecstasy" to the summit on the sacred mountain of Mentorella. His Master, Jesuit Father Athanasius Kircher, died. The sun rises. The day begins... That place is considered sacred and a constant pilgrimage of the faithful and was for many years restored – by himself – as his favorite retreat place and special center of prayer and meditation. =Kircher had written that his heart be buried on his beloved altar next to the divine Madonna he had dug up years ago on the mountain. The divine Athanasius Kircher died but did not die on November 27, 1680. Curiously, the excessive intellectual figure of the divine sage Athanasius Kircher, - the center of everything from the Roman Jesuit College - was a creature of the Renaissance for whom nothing was more divine and sweet than knowing everything, as Plato said. Ingrid D. Rowland calls it a living monument of seventeenth-century Baroque Rome: "When, in the course of time, Kircher developed his hermetic, magical, occult, and hieroglyphic gifts, the superiors of the Society could not but be flattered that a distinguished German member of his order, perfectly identified with the uses and purposes of the order, was also one of the most notable heads in the field of Hermeticism and Renaissance magic. which had tended to be confused with the anti-Catholic policy of certain important intellectual and radical groups of Protestantism" (1) We must rightly consider him an eminent and multifaceted author of numerous and varied works. There is no doubt that he was an excellently endowed being with cultured and very fine qualities within the highest spiritual vibration. He was a skilled collector, museologist, musicologist, meticulous observer, analyst and book lover. He studied in a practical and constant way the worlds of physics, philology, linguistics, archaeology, magnetism, acoustics, astronomy, chemistry-alchemistry, mineralogy, volcanology and optics. He was a multifaceted, extraordinary and prolific designer of artifacts and a fertile builder of all kinds of machines and sundials. As a master of the hundred arts in his museum in Rome, he designed talking statues and penetrating acoustic interactive ears, which would make it easier for him to hear visitors entering the museum -without them noticing-, Thanks to a curious invention with a giant acoustic ear and examiner. In addition to the pragmatic, he was able to penetrate deeply and subtly unfathomable mysteries of the divine mind. Thanks to his energetic magical mind, he had the ability to assess, nourish himself and even manage to distill primordial essences of the most arcane, varied and mysterious "mental worlds". His frequent errors, contradictions, inconsistencies, measurements, and fantastic and improbable chronologies should not minimize his unmatched greatness, intellectual passion, and noble scholarly effort within his time and space. "To understand only Kircher's failures is to miss his successes" (Paula Finden) A powerful and extremely complex spiritual-encyclopedic mind, encapsulated in its time and within the accumulation of its particular circumstances. He was an inventor, composer, geographer, geologist, Egyptologist, historian, adventurer, astrologer and kabbalist, physicist, mathematician, polyglot and astronomer. All this and much more the legacy and merits of the divine Kircher. His exuberant and extraordinary polymathy or magic lantern manages to project into the unfathomable and unknown intellectual space the most difficult, artificial and sumptuous images of the experimental science of his time. He published more than 40 works. For him, to understand the meaning of things was to go directly to their sources and the source was the light and wisdom of God. It should also be noted that at the age of 23 he was already teaching high mathematics, Hebrew and Syriac in Heiligenstadt. He was fluent in more than 12 languages, including Aramaic, Persian, Coptic, Latin, Syriac, Greek, Hebrew... And as early as 1631 he published what was his first book on magnetism, from a very rich series of jewels of the learned and erudite literature of all times = (Ars Magnesia, Würzburg) Later, settled in France, he would teach philosophy, oriental languages and mathematics. It is here that he establishes the valuable friendship of his first great patron, the French scholar and antiquarian Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), who would recommend his attention to the influential Cardinal Francesco Barberini, nephew of Pope Urban VIII. It is Peiresc who first shows a great interest in the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Both manage in friendly and cultured night talks to enrich their intellect in polyglots and endless conversations and on the subject of the enigmatic Rabbi Barachias Nephi and his controversial and dusty almost... "Blurring and invisible Babylonian manuscript". Both manage to delve and wander between erudite conversations about Coptic, Gnostic gems and the delicate and early attempt to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics. (Prodromus Coptus sive Aegyptiacus, 1636) It is the antiquarian Claude, and this according to the opinion of the researcher J. Godwin, who provides him with an excellent copy of the famous Bembina Tablets of Isis. (Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Vol III, Cardinal Bembo) Peter Marshall says of Kircher: "There is no doubt that he knew and believed more than he was willing to reveal." (2) Undoubtedly, the wise Kircher always in his own way and style and, reluctantly, beware of the ignorant censorship of the Church, -he published most of his works in Amsterdam-, which considered him and even accused him of: "audacia, presumtio, ac temeritas'. (Martha Baldwin) Father of sinology = (China Ilustrata) and geology researcher, antiquary, linguist, Egyptologist, polyglot and musicologist of a thousand inventions. And, also, of the wider and more varied Kabbalistic destinies= (Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652-55) contains 150 pages of Kabbalah. His comprehensive erudition and unparalleled universal knowledge and extensive knowledge of arts and sciences -with its successes and failures-, led him to create and master a whole complex symbolic and theurgical system codified within the peculiar "Kircherian mystical logic" or clavis universalis. It was, without a doubt, this son of Hermes who gave to his teachings of the ancient wisdom of the magical and intellectual world, an expressive richness of the highest spiritual-material content and erudite and immeasurable nature. "His study of the hieroglyphs and esoteric traditions is best understood in the context of the passion for studying inscriptions, artifacts, and old and exotic manuscripts that was shared by many contemporaneous scholars-that is to say, antiquarianism'. (3) It is plausible that his mysterious domains of acoustics and magnetism outline and point out features of deep assimilation of millenary wisdom gold chain of cultured ancestors of antiquity. The wide mastery of arithmosophy, which he always showed, shows that his solid and fertile intellectual scaffolding was not established in weak empty premises or banal impossible mathematical theories. His intellectual world was totally magical and his rich chronological and historical fantasies = (Noah's Ark, 1675 and Turris Babel, 1679) enriched the foundations of his interesting hallucinatory journey through multiple fields of knowledge and through more difficult, unexplored and unusual territories. In his magical and shamanic world, he entertained himself with endless measurements of the dimensions of Noah's Ark and placed animals in it, not without certain difficulties of accommodation and feeding. Apparently, he could easily believe in impossible chronologies adjusted with some fidelity to the Bible, he believed in mermaids, dragons, griffins and other fantastic beings and animals. (4) In many respects, between being a man who has everything wrong and wise misunderstood, we prefer the latter. We must not doubt that in his life there was a very powerful and invisible "hidden force" of a shamanic nature that in stronger, more dangerous and critical moments of his life gave him total support and protection to companies and studies. "It was quite clear that something was in the air-some occult force, as Kircher would have said, drawing the scholarly world back to him and his projects.'' (Paula Finden, 2004) The spiritual master Kircher leaves a valuable codified legacy of wisdom that must be carefully reviewed and reread again = (caute legendum) carefully, thoroughly and delicately expertly = (sub cortice). Apparently, we can understand that Kircher was a master of magical illusions and a potential shaman – in a black cassock – of the finest Apollonian line. It is striking that noble characteristics emerge, those of a powerful magnet receiving the celestial seed (semina) and of the noblest, most cultured and refined "telestic madness". And, for this reason, constantly drinking from the inexhaustible liquor of the source of sunlight – arcane discipline – just like Orpheus, Pythagoras and Empedocles the powerful magician. (5) Often some of them are considered sublime teachers of Blessed Light, who would later take Christian "refuge" in the Catholic Church to try, at least, to free themselves from the most infamous and ignorant fire and "strong" inquisitor. It would seem, then, that more than the wise Kircher will take to full consciousness the golden link of a glorious millennial Apollonian current. By skillfully combining that hidden wisdom into endless and extraordinary sets of intellectual cryptographic and polygraph messages – excellently coded. (6) In a subtle and enigmatic way, he gave a glorious name to the honorable function of priest, magician and naturalist, philosopher, Kabbalist, healer, advisor to Popes and, possibly, like other great philosophers... Highly cultured shaman. (7) Arguably, that venerable ancestral tradition or scientia immutabilis (Unum, Bonum, and Ens) connects him directly to old masters of the Golden Chain. In this sense, thanks to them – old masters – it will be abundantly nourished by going directly to unravel the spiritual synthesis of one's own inexhaustible sources = (Ad Fontes, Ex Fontibus = To the Sources from the Sources). In total and full mastery of varied and exotic original languages. "And yet Kircher and many others believed that a strain of true (or truer) wisdom had survived, in the form of the written texts attributed to Hermes and in teachings believed to connect Hermes, Orpheus, Pythagoras, and Plato, among others''. (8) For the German master, in his prisca theologia all things rest connected and interconnected by invisible arcane knots = (Arcanus nodis ligantur mundus). He could affirm in consonance with another great spiritual master, the unbreakable Giordano Bruno: "The Unity of the All in the One Is". It is the path or path of the medium of mysterious light and an ancient way of emanation of celestial-solar alchemical substance. The one that Master John Dee would call: Mercurius coelestis. (9) Master Athanasius Kircher 🌹 Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.🌹 Bibliography: 1. Ignacio Gómez De Liaño, Athanasius Kircher, Itinerary of Ecstasy or the Images of a Universal Knowledge, p. 18. 2. Peter Marshall, The Philosopher's Stone, p. 400. 3. Daniel Stolzenberg, Four Trees, Some Amulets, and the Seventy-Two Names of God. 4. Joscelyn Godwin, Athanasius Kircher, A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Knowledge, p. 5. 5. Raquel Martín Hernández, Orfeo y los Magos, pp. 318-319. 6. Trithemius, Steganography, 1608. Kircher, Polygraphia Nova, 1663. 7. E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational, pp. 141-145. 8. John Glassie, A Man of Misconceptions, p.138. 9. Hieroglyphic Monad, Oedipus aegytiacus III.p.29 and in Peter J. French, John Dee, p.80.