Author: Nicola Bizzi

The Soul of the World (Greek: Ψυχὴ Κόσμου, Psychè Kósmou, also known in Latin as Anima Mundi) is a philosophical concept used by the Platonists to indicate the vitality of nature in its totality, assimilated to a single living organism. It represents the unifying principle from which the individual organisms take shape, which, although each articulated and differentiated according to its own individual specificities, are nevertheless linked to each other by such a common Universal Soul. The Renaissance, under the impetus of ancient mystery and initiatory schools that had survived the persecutions of the Church for centuries, attempted to reconnect humanity with this Universal Soul.

The Soul of the World (also known in Latin as Anima Mundi) is a philosophical concept used by the Platonists to indicate the vitality of nature in its totality, assimilated to a single living organism. It represents the unifying principle from which individual organisms take shape, which, although each one is articulated and differentiated according to its own individual specificities, are nevertheless linked to each other by a common Universal Soul. Renaissance, under the pressure of ancient mystery and initiatory schools that survived the persecutions of the Church for centuries, attempted to reconnect humanity with this Universal Soul.

Molte scuole di pensiero esoterico ed iniziatico, sia in Oriente che in Occidente, tendono a sostenere l’esistenza di una Unica Tradizione Primordiale e di un’ipotetica unità trascendente delle religioni. La Tradizione Misterica degli Eleusini Madre ha però sempre contrastato con forza una simile visione. E in questo articolo ne spiegheremo il motivo.

True awareness, as the most authentic Philosophy teaches us, we must – and we can – find within us. “It would be really nice, Agathon, – Plato wrote in the Symposium – if wisdom were able to flow from the fullest to the emptiest of us, when we get in touch with each other, like the water that flows in the cups through a thread of wool from the fullest to the emptiest one”…Wisdom is not transmitted like a fluid, it is not separated from whoever conceives it. It is a personal experience that can only be lived and it is not possible to transfer it ready-made, mechanically. A great inner motivation is needed, an individual effort combined with an inexhaustible passion for dialogue between person and person. It is necessary to start a philosophical-maieutic communication through a tight dialectical method.