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From Pat Deveney's database:
Fenice, La. This was a journal devoted to the work of "Giuliano (J.M.) Kremmerz" (
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| Fenice V1 N1 Sep 1949 | |
| Fenice V1 N2 Oct 1949 | |
| Fenice V1 N3-4 Nov-dec 1949 | |
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Fenice is an Italian Hermetic review whose phoenix title signals its theme of transformation. It works the western esoteric tradition through occultism and magic, but its most characteristic move is to read the human organism itself in Hermetic terms — pairing classical imagery of Apollo and the sibyl with a vitalist natural-philosophy of anatomy, cells, and the body's exchange with its environing world, all shot through with a magnetic and odic vocabulary. Alchemical resonance hangs over the whole enterprise by way of the phoenix emblem. There is no mediumistic or Theosophical machinery here; the register is speculative occult natural-philosophy. Fenice thus sits among the compact Italian voices for practical, philosophically minded Hermeticism. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Alchemy | Hermeticism and Western Esotericism | Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy | Sexual Elements: Continence, Free Love, Regeneration, and Sex Magic |
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