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Periodical: Abraxas

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Abraxas.
Revista di diffusione del pensiero gnostico / Revista de Gnosis y Gnosticismo.
2006 Irregular
Online Italy, Spain.
Language: Italian, Spanish.
Editor: Filippo Goti.
Succeeds: Lex Aurea (November 2003)

1/1, October 2006. This was an online journal published by Filippo Goti (1970- ), a voluminous author on occult topics. The same journal was published in both Italian and Spanish. Abraxas was the Gnostic name for the Logos or Demiurge of the Universe, symbolized by a rooster-headed being with serpent legs and bearing a shield. The journal and Goti's fuocosacro/fuegosacro websites were intended to the historical side of Gnosticism and related movements, while his earlier journal, Lex Aurea, to which this journal was a companion, was devoted to the free philosophical discussion on the same topics. Goti focused his work on "Misticismo," "Cabala Christianesimo," "Alchimia e Simbolo," "Gnosticismo," and "Martinismo," with the last owing allegiance to the Sovrano Ordine Gnostico Martinista. of Italy. Underlying all these interests, the "Sacred Fire" denomination of Goti's sites seems to have been an appreciation of the practical sexual magic of Samael Aun Weor and the Movimento Samaeliano. On Aun Weor, see the notes under Ariel and Rosa_Cruz, both from Colombia.

Other Sources:
Issues:Lex Aurea N15 Feb 20 2006
Abraxas N10 Jun 21 2010
Abraxas N15 Jan 21 2013
Claude-Generated Themes:   Abraxas is an Italian esoteric review built around Gnosticism, announced already by its Gnostic-gem title. Its articles move through the Archons, the Cathars, and episodes such as the 'Christ of Bourges', and they take a scholarly interest in Jules Doinel and the modern attempt to revive a Gnostic Church out of antique Gnosticism and Catharism. Surrounding this core is a wider Hermetic and ceremonial-magical vocabulary — the esoteric, magic, the adept, the tarot — that places the journal firmly in the western initiatic tradition rather than in Theosophy or spiritualism. It reads as an erudite bridge between the history of Gnostic religion and living Hermetic practice.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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