Čiurlionis was a friend and pupil of Polish symbolist painter Kazimierz Stabrowski, a prominent Theosophist, and also read the works of Flammarion, another Theosophist.
Was Čiurlionis, the great Lithuanian painter, influenced by the ideas of the Theosophical Society? The jury is still out.
Gurdjieff, folk magic, the Tarot and World War II were intertwined in the late Surrealist artistic and cultural universe. Esotericism maintained a decisive role.
Alchemy acquired an increasingly important role in the works of the Surrealists. It was more than a symbol.
At the Guggenheim Collection in Venice—and in a video by La Società dello Zolfo—we are offered an itinerary through an enchanted world.
The dramatic history and the teachings of the movement are highlighted in the first monograph consecrated to it.
Bitter Winter proved in a series of articles that the anti-cult organization FECRIS and its affiliates constantly supported Russia and China. An international appeal (with many Ukrainian signatures).
In a historic decision of June 7, the judges denounced the Russian concept of “extremism” as a tool used to violate religious liberty.
Milan’s “Movimento Arte Nucleare” and Livorno’s Eaismo believed that a new “nuclear art” was a needed response to the fear of the bomb.
The Spanish artist was the first to react to Hiroshima, and to conclude that the new “atomic era” had something to do with religion.