The Solar Mystery
Subtitle: An Inquiry Into the Temporal and the Eternal Background of the Rise of Modern Civilization
Publisher: Solum Forlag
Published: September 2003
Place of publication: Oslo, Norway
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9788256014071
Subjects: Modern - General; History; 15th and 16th century; Astronomy, Renaissance; Hermetism; Occultism and science; History: Italian, Polish; Copernicana; Art - Giorgione
First sentence: The interpretation of the Renaissance by the impact of ‘heathen’ antiquity on Western Europe is so common that the tremendous historical mystery it involves is not perceived. The obvious roots of the Renaissance lie in the paradoxical confrontation of the Christian tradition, illuminated to the least detail by centuries of dogmatic predication, with the dark exuberance of ancient mythology, covering landscapes of mystical call.
Notes: "The Solar Mystery is a fruit of the interaction between the author’s systematic studies of the spontaneous symbolism of creative processes in art and his early engagement in the so-called ‘Copernican revolution’ of the High Renaissance. An accident led him to the unexpected discovery that the ‘revolution’ in question concerned actually all the central domains of human life, but that its truly revolutionary scope was kept, and remained, secret, leading thereby gradually to catastrophal consequences for the entire modern civilization." (from page 4)
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: 7; title: Introduction and Survey of the Subject
pagenum: 11; label: 1
title: The Mystery Man Georgios Gemistos Plethon and  the Unification of the World
pagenum: 49; label: 2
title: The Spiritual Marriage of Italy and Greece,  and the Final Division of the Christian East and West
pagenum: 71; label: 3
title: Plethon’s ‘Laws’, in so Far as They Escaped an Orthodox Auto-da-fé,  and Their Mythical Ancestry
pagenum: 79; label: 4
title: Proclus’ Oscillating Universe as Compared to  Plethon’s Steady-State Universe
pagenum: 95; label: 5
title: The Solar Mystery in the Chaldean Oracles
pagenum: 106; label: 6
title: Salvation in the Chaldean Oracles
pagenum: 113; label: 7
title: Renaissance Platonism and the Etruscan Mystery
pagenum: 123; label: 8
title: Julius Pomponius Laetus and  the Supposed Antipapal Conspiracy of the Roman Academy
pagenum: 135; label: 9
title: Callimachus’ Ascent Between East and West
pagenum: 153; label: 10
title: Callimachus, Nicholo, and the Humanistic Circle of Vladislavia
pagenum: 167; label: 11
title: Copernicus’ Studies in Cracow,  and the Phoebean Sodalities of Conrad Celtis
pagenum: 183; label: 12
title: Basic Data Concerning Copernicus’ Sojourn in Italy
pagenum: 188; label: 13
title: The Italian Background of Copernicus’ Cosmological Revolution
pagenum: 196; label: 14
title: Venice as the City of the Sun
pagenum: 212; label: 15
title: Star of the Saviour
pagenum: 216; label: 16
title: The Renaissance of Dream
pagenum: 225; label: 17
title: The Mystery-Man Called the Great Giorgio,  and the Enigma of His ‘Three Philosophers’
pagenum: 234; label: 18
title: Hermetic and Mystic Interpretations of Giorgione’s ‘Three Philosophers’
pagenum: 247; label: 19
title: Giorgione’s ‘Three Philosophers’ as Representatives of  Different Systems of Philosophy or Astronomy
pagenum: 259; label: 20
title: The Early Works of Giorgione  in Relation to the Origin of ‘The Three Philosophers’
pagenum: 272; label: 21
title: The Birth and Infancy of a Hero in Giorgionesque Art
pagenum: 279; label: 22
title: The Search for the Lost Soul in Giorgione’s Work
pagenum: 291; label: 23
title: Giorgione’s and Copernicus’ Social Contacts in Venice and Padua
pagenum: 306; label: 24
title: Zodiaci Mystici Virgo
pagenum: 312; label: 25
title: The Development of Giorgionistic Painting,  and the Hermetic Circles of North Italy
pagenum: 320; label: 26
title: The Twenty-Seven Years of Becoming of Copernicus’ System of the World
pagenum: 330; label: 27
title: The Cycle of Copernicus’ Personal Transformation, ca. 1529–1541
pagenum: 341; label: 28
title: Rheticus and the Publication of De revolutionibus
pagenum: 347; label: 29
title: Copernicus as a Seer Exposed to the Mockery of the Mob
pagenum: 353; label: 30
title: Copernicus and the Healing of the World
pagenum: 362; label: Appendix 1
title: Copernicus’ Reading and His Venetian Book Acquisitions
pagenum: 368; label: Appendix 2
title: Copernicus’ Supposed Portraits
pagenum: 373; label: Appendix 3
title: The Authentic Title of Copernicus’ Major Work
pagenum: 384; label: Appendix 4
title: Ancient and Copernican Cosmical Physics as  Projections of the Laws of Creative Self-Realization
pagenum: 390; label: Appendix 5
title: Copernicus’ Supposed Solarization of the Christian Mysteries
pagenum: 399; label: Appendix 6
title: Alexander von Suchten, Alchemist and Physician, Copernicus’ Protégé
pagenum: 409; title: Notes
pagenum: 416; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 455