
Massimo Scaligero, born Antonio Sgabelloni in
Veroli
Veroli ( la, Verulae) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, central Italy, in the Latin Valley.
History
Veroli (''Verulae'') became a Roman municipium in 90 BC. It became the seat of a bishopric in 743 AD, and was occup ...
,
Italy
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(1906–1980) an
Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
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*** Regional Ita ...
spiritual teacher and member of "Gruppo di Ur". A mentee of
Julius Evola
Giulio Cesare Andrea "Julius" Evola (; 19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974) was an Italian philosopher, poet, painter, esotericist, and radical-right ideologue. Evola regarded his values as aristocratic, masculine, traditionalist, heroic, and defiantly ...
, Scaligero espoused fierce antisemitic views which were combined with
esotericism
Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to categorise a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society. These ideas a ...
and
anthroposophy
Anthroposophy is a spiritualist movement founded in the early 20th century by the esotericist Rudolf Steiner that postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world, accessible to human experience. Followers ...
into a system of "integral racism" with the aim to bring Germany and Italy closer together in the same way it would the spiritual and the biological.
Works
English
*''The Light (La Luce): An introduction to creative imagination''. Great Barrington, MA: Lindesfarne Books, 2001. .
*''The Secrets of Space and Time''. Great Barrington, MA: Lindesfarne Books, 2013. .
*''A Practical Manual of Meditation''. Great Barrington, MA: Lindesfarne Books, 2015. .
*''A Treatise on Living Thinking: A Path beyond Western Philosophy, beyond Yoga, beyond Zen''. Great Barrington, MA: Lindesfarne Books, 2015. .
*''The Logic Against Humanity: The Myth of Science and the Path of Thinking''. Great Barrington, MA: Lindesfarne Books, 2017. .
Italian (untranslated)
*''"La Razza di Roma", ''Mantero, Tivoli, 1939
*''The Way of the Solar Will''
*''Immortal Love''
*''Yoga, Meditation, Magic''
*''From Yoga to the Rose Cross''
*''The Logos and the New Mysteries''
*''Psychotherapy;''
*''Techniques of Inner Concentration''
*''Healing with Thinking''
*''Meditation and Miracles''
*''Thinking as Antimaterialism''
*''Western Kundalini''
*''Isis Sophia''
*''Zen and Logos''
See also
*
Anthroposophy
Anthroposophy is a spiritualist movement founded in the early 20th century by the esotericist Rudolf Steiner that postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world, accessible to human experience. Followers ...
*
The Philosophy of Freedom
''The Philosophy of Freedom'' is the fundamental philosophical work of philosopher, Goethe scholar and esotericist Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925). It addresses the question of whether and in what sense human beings are free. Originally published i ...
References
External links
*Massimo Scaligero,
A Treatise on Living Thought', excerpt translated by Mark Nazzari Willan. Accessed 2009-04-07.
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1906 births
1980 deaths
People from Veroli
Anthroposophists
Esotericists