Juan Eduardo Cirlot Laporta (1916-1973) was a Spanish poet, art critic, musicologist, and theorist of symbolism whose intellectual trajectory represents a unique case in 20th-century Hispanic culture. His life was marked by an unceasing quest for a total system of knowledge through the symbol.
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Le Bestiaire du Christ: La mystique des animaux, symbolisme et iconographie (The Bestiary of Christ: The Mystique of Animals, Symbolism and Iconography) is the magnum opus of French symbologist Louis Charbonneau-Lassay (1871-1946). Published originally in 1940 by Desclée de Brouwer in Bruges, this monumental work of nearly 1100 pages and over 1100 illustrations represents the culmination of fifty years of research into the symbolic language of the Christian tradition. It stands as one of the most comprehensive and erudite studies of its kind in the twentieth century.
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Charbonneau-Lassay’s labour represents a unique effort to rescue the symbolic heritage of Christianity, offering a key to reading that reconciles faith with the intelligence of symbols, and constituting a fundamental bridge between historical erudition and traditional metaphysics.
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The Guénonian vision of Christian Hermeticism is that of a esotericism that is primordially valid but historically truncated, whose authenticity must be sought not in its modern developments, but in its purest sources and in its concordance with other sacred traditions.
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The golden ratio, approximately 1.6180339887…, and often denoted by the Greek letter Phi (Φ), is one of the most fascinating and meaningful mathematical constants in history. Its journey, from ancient civilizations to contemporary culture, reveals a persistent search for harmony and perfect proportion in the universe, art, and architecture.
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