E Nos Lases Iuvate: The Mirror

Quando in un bosco ne percepisci la bellezza e diventi tutt'uno con il bosco, allora, intuitivamente, sei in armonia e in pace con le Dee e con gli Dei. Essi sono parte della nostra vera natura, la nostra Natura Profonda, e quando siamo separati dalla nostra vera natura, viviamo nella paura. Percepire questa normalità vuol dire dare un senso reale al vivere che è insito in tutte le cose.

Intraprendere la Via Romana al Divino significa iniziare un percorso di risveglio: praticando l'attenzione e la consapevolezza continua ci incamminiamo lungo una strada sapendo che ciò che conta è il cammino per sè più che la destinazione.

When you, entering a forest, perceive the beauty of the forest and you feel to be in a complete harmony with it, then, intuitively, you are in peace with the Deities. They are an essential part of our real nature, our Deep Nature, and when we are separated by our real nature we live in the fear. Perceiving such normality means giving a real sense to our lives.

Undertaking the Roman Via to the Deities implies a path to awakening: with the practice of continuing consciousness and awareness we undertake our walking knowing that taking the path is more important than the destination itself.

lunedì 13 giugno 2016

The Mirror

The mirror is a frequently represented, used and cited symbol in the Traditional Roman Sprituality, as well as in all the expressions of the Ancient Traditional Spirituality.

When observing the antique mirrors, one can see that they show often peculiar features making them hardly comparable to modern mirrors.

In the past the mirror was never a "profane" tool: it always involves complex implications.

The act of looking him/herself in a mirror hence is never a "neutral" gesture, but it rather involves complex meanings.

Today we have lost the memory about all this: not only we are unable to understand the deep meaning of "the mirror and looking at the mirror", but we assimilate in a totally profane way, also the antique mirrors into an exclusively modern vision completely deprived of any symbolic meaning.

Being a so extremely complex symbol, I can just mention few approximate considerations here.

The mirror is always linked to Dionysus: it is therefore always involved, even as an allusion, in the mystery cults. The mirror is an esoteric symbol of "knowledge" but, at the same time, it is a symbol of illusion, because what one see in the mirror does not exist in reality, since it is only a reflection. The mirror in fact generates "spectres" (speculum-spectrum)

As already mentioned, the mirror is a symbol of knowledge (reflex-reflection) because looking through the mirror a person knows and re-knows. Knowledge thus means bringing the world "inside the mirror", reducing it to a reflex that can be observed. When one looks into the mirror, he/she looks at himself/herself therefore at the world.

Deception and knowledge are hence closely linked (reflex-reflection) in the symbol of the mirror and in the act of mirroring. Moreover through these reflections we also may however know the divine within the world; through the symbol of the mirror, we may know Gods and Goddesses in their appearance. Knowing, even the Divine dimension, means mirroring, observing, revealing. We look at ourselves, we look at the world, we see the Gods and Goddesses: all this means "knowledge." Looking at the image of our physical and material being in the mirror involves observing a reflected imagine of the Divine. This is the deepest meaning of the concept: "men and women are made in the image and likeness of Gods and Goddesses" (a concept also considered in monotheism, but in completely confused, clumsy, misunderstood and profane terms).

The world we know is therefore a product symbolically reflected by a mirror: it is surely illusion and deception, but it is a form of knowledge, in particular, rational knowledge. What may defined it as "Scientific Knowledge."

In this image generated by the mirror, deception and reality, appearance and divinity, are linked together. Reflection illuminates; in the same time it deceives. Ourselves and the world we observe, and we believe to know, anything is an illusion. Reality is beyond the conventional and profane idea of knowledge whose understanding is linked to the the choice of the "correct Via": on the one hand there is the "Via of the Initiates", on the other hand there is the "Via of the vulgar mankind".

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Welcome

Questo blog raccoglie informazioni e le mie personali riflessioni sulla Spiritualità Tradizionale Romana. Si tratta in particolare di riflessioni sulle manifestazioni del divino, sulle sue energie e su i suoi riti (il tutto molto legato alla Natura) secondo la visione tradizionale romana in una prospettiva il più possibile moderna ed attuale.

This blog collects information and my personal reflections about the Traditional Roman Spirituality. In particular here I reflect on the divine manifestations, on the divine energies, rites, worship and cerimonies (strictly linked to Nature) according to the Roman Traditional view within a perspective as modern as possible.

Cosa significa "Pagano"?/What does it mean "Pagan"?

Il termine "Pagano" è nato con un significato offensivo, dispregiativo e negativo. I pagani erano coloro che continuavano a praticare gli antichi riti (molto spesso nelle campagne - Pagus=villaggio) rifiutandosi di accettare la religione cristiana. Ancora oggi con questo termine spesso si indica tutto ciò che è immorale, popolare, volgare, idolatra e immondo. Al contrario i pagani, ieri come oggi, sono spesso e per definizione, avendo come base il politeismo, in prima fila nella difesa della Natura e dei valori della tolleranza e di tutto ciò che è “plurale”.

The term "Pagan" was created with a negative and offensive sense. Pagans were in the past those who were still seeking the ancient rites (above all in the countryside - Pagus=village) refusing the new christian religion. Still today this term often is used to indicate anything is immoral, popular, vulgar, idolatrising, etc. On the contrary, at present as in the past, the Pagans are those, on the base of polyteism, by definition in the frontline to defend Mother Nature and the values of tolerance and anything is "plural".

Discussione - Discussion

Come Cultrici e Cultori attualmente non disponiamo di un Tempio adeguato sia allo svolgimento dei rituali sia come punto di incontro, meditazione e studio. Cosa si potrebbe fare per realizzare questo progetto? Avete idee o proposte in merito?
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lasesiuvate@gmail.com
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As Cultores at present we have no adequate Temples or sacred sites both for traditional rituals and for meditation, study and meetings. What it could be done to concretely achieve and implement such a project? Have you any idea or suggestion about it?
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I 5 Voti della Via Romana/The 5 Vows of the Roman Via

Frugalità: vivere nella semplicità e nella sobrietà, allontanando gli eccessi e accontentandosi di ciò che è realmente necessario
Superiorità: mai sentirsi inferiore a nessuno nella pratica della Via
Umanità: operare per il bene degli altri e della comunità
Utilità: fare in modo che il proprio operato sia utile agli altri ed alla comunità
Pietà: ciò che vi è di buono e di cattivo in una famiglia è evidenziato dal comportamento dei discendenti. Abbiamo il dovere di mettere in luce ciò che vi è di buono nella nostra famiglia: solo seguendo il mos maiorum e coltivando gli Dei/Dee possiamo ottenere questo risultato e raggiungere la Pax Deorum.

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Frugality: live in semplicity and sobriety, avoiding excesses and ostentation, being satisfied with you really need
Superiority: never feel inferior or second to anybody in practicing the Via
Humanity: operate for the others' and the community's well being
Usefulness: make your actions useful to others and to the community
Pietas: what is good and bad in a family is evidenced by the descendants' behaviour. Only following the mos maiorum and cultivating Gods/Goddesses we can evidence the best of our family and ancestors and build our Pax Deorum.