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TURIN THE MAGICAL TOWN

No longer the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, Turin in the 1920s is still the most international town in the country. With the post-war industrial explosion, the budding cinematographic production houses, the scientific research carried on by the universities, the social struggles, the city is leading the way to the future; with its ancient ruins, museums, cathedrals and traditions, the city still has its foundations firmly in the past. And with the longstanding esoteric tradition, the Celtic misteries, the Egyptian relics and the old legends, something darker lurks in unexpected places.

Special visits to unique esoteric places undiscoverable in any other part of the world :

" TEMPLES OF HUMANKIND " - TURIN ESOTHERIC TOWN - EGYPTIAN MUSEM "

VISITS TO THE TEMPLES OF HUMANKIND

THE TEMPLES

The Federation opens the door on its most precious creative work, the Temples dedicated to Humanity: an extraordinary day which offers an unforgettable experience The Temples of Humankind, a huge underground construction, declared a work of art by the Soprintendenza alle Belle Arti (Fine Art Authority) is a building of extraordinary beauty, begun in 1978 and created entirely by hand. The Hall of Mirrors, the Hall of Water, the Hall of the Earth, the Labyrinth and the Hall of Metals: one after another extraordinary environments that touch the heart and soul, the mind and senses. Bringing to light all the beauty to be found inside each one of us. The Temples are in fact a journey of initiation, the ritual representation of the inner rooms of every human being. Passing through the Halls and along the corridors of the Temples is a journey inside the self, a spiritual pilgrimage open to all creeds and convictions. The Temples of Humankind carry this name because they are devoted to the celebration of creativity and spirituality in all their forms: can be a flame that once alight, inspires the spiritual rebirth of everyone who so desires it.

THE VISIT

The in depth visit is preceded by a whole day of preparation. The morning is dedicated to meditation techniques, to intimately prepare and energetically predispose those who wish to visit the Temples. In the afternoon visitors are accompanied into the Temples where during their visit they can participate in a short meditation in one of the Halls. The programme starts at 9.00 and finishes approximately at 18.30 - the minimum number of participants is six. It is possible to make an individual reservation to join a group visit. For those who wish to discover this beautiful construction little by little, and fully enjoy the energy and the beauty of its different Halls, this level of visit can be diluted on two or three days. In special circumstances evening visits can also be organized. Successive visits may be made to the Temples for meditation in specific Halls. Each of the Temples' Halls can be used by a small group of people for meditation connected to the function of the Hall itself and its inner pathways.

Preparation for entering the Temples is carried out in the selfic circuits of the Sacred Wood: contact with the Green World. Walking meditations in the Circuits of the Sacred Wood. Concert of the Music of the Plants.

The Temples of Humankind

The Temples of Humankind, built in the heart of the mountain, are a series of underground Halls where art and beauty become a means of communication with the Divine. The rooms are connected to each other on different levels in a pathway that is liked to the journey that every human being undertakes from birth to death and again at rebirth.

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The hall of mirror

The Hall of Mirrors is a space of 1,200 cubic meters, dedicated to the sky, the air and the light. This Hall has the largest Tiffany glass cupola in the world. The cupola has a diameter of 10 meters, a surface of 100 square meters and is made up of 26,000 pieces of glass soldered together with lead. The design is inspired by the journey that light makes from the Sun to the Earth and consists of decorative bands contained in the wings of a great falcon. The cupola represents solar energy, hence strength and life: the symbols are expressed in signs of the ideogrammatic language, which re-create the movement of animals (the serpent is considered an ancient symbol of knowledge). The Sun as a star enclosed in the wings of the falcon represents the constellation of the Stellar Falcon.

Hall of water

Hall of water This Hall is four by seven meters wide. The ceiling and the top of the walls are covered in 24-carat gold leaf: this material was particularly chosen because in this Hall the gold functions as an insulator. In fact in each Hall the ceiling is insulated with different materials according to its function: e.g. ceramic, painting, gold, glass. Eight crystal spheres are displayed in eight niches decorated with mosaics. A further sphere is displayed inside an aperture in the exposed rock at the central point of a wall. This Hall is positioned at the exact intersection point of three important Synchronic Lines. Synchronic Lines; they are energy rivers that surround the Earth and link it to the universe. These energy flows are able to catalyze the great forces present in the cosmos. The lines can modify events and carry ideas, thoughts and moods, thereby influencing all living creatures. Synchronic lines are flows of energy able to catalyse the great forces present in the cosmos. These lines can modify events and carry ideas, thoughts and moods in their flow, so influencing all living creatures. They are communication ways to and from the universe. From here it is possible to contact all points of the planet and transmit messages, ideas and dreams to help create harmony between co-existing nations and stimulate the development of 'Peoples'. Between one sphere and another there are sculptures which provide supports for the various chalices: the sculptures represent the union of the masculine and feminine principle which creates energy and power.

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The blue temples

This is the oldest Hall, the construction and the access to the Water Hall below followed on from the building of this first Hall. The Blue Temple is used for meditation on social matters by the Guides of the Federation, as a place for inspiration and reflection. For this inspirational use there is a throne in terracotta, placed in an alcove in the wall, from which one can meditate upon the large blue sphere.

The labyrinth

This vast Hall is currently in the form of three high naves with pointed arches connected to each other by three further naves, so as to create a kind of labyrinth, with many possible pathways. This Hall is dedicated to the story of Humanity, which is related through the representation of the divine Forces that have been worshipped on the planet throughout the centuries . An artistic work which unites different cultures and different peoples. The Divinities are represented in sixteen windows using Tiffany technique combined with cold painted glass.

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The hall of EARTH

This Hall is dedicated to the male principle, to the Earth as an element and planet and to the memory of past reincarnations. It is a circular based room, which develops into a cone shape towards the ceiling. Four doors fashioned in Tiffany technique with coloured glass represent the Sun, the Moon and the People. They open onto stairways, altars and corridors leading to other Halls. Behind the two portals dedicated to the People and the Moon, there are three windows in Tiffany glass, whose centres represent, the elements of the zone in which they are found (water, earth and fire). The outer parts represent a prayer linked to the search for spirituality. The whole Hall revolves around a central column sculpted in reconstituted stone, which represents two figures in a spiraling movement, a male and a female, combined with animals at different points of the body. The central column is like the axle of a carriage, whose wheels are the ceiling and the floor: It is a solar carriage.

THE hall of metal

The Hall takes its name from the fact that it represents the different ages of Humankind. According to philosophy every age is linked to a metal or an element. The eight windows located in the walls of the Hall can be read like a book. Information on the metal as an element, its atomic number, atomic mass, fusion temperature, dilation co-efficient, chemical notation, Latin name and its correspondence in the Tarot can all be read in the window. In each window the alchemical value of the metal is described in signs and ideogrammatic language using glass worked in decorative Tiffany technique. The vices of Humankind are expressed in the floor mosaics; the six human figures representing pride, egoism, pessimism, falsity, lack of awareness and self-destruction: the images are immersed in a 'sea' of dark stone. The ceiling of the room represents the positive part of the battle, here five warriors with conventional weapons (bow, sword and lance) and spiritual weapons (a magical instrument and a book containing knowledge) oppose the vices. The figures move in a clockwise direction in relation to the floor. The five warriors defend a fire that symbolizes the evolving spiritual life of Humankind. The central column is clad in embossed copper: four human figures, male and female, hold magical instruments in their hands and hint at a step in Sacred Dance which means 'victory'.

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" TURIN ESOTERIC TOWN - EGYPTIAN MUSEM

Visit to the Egyptian museum and the Magic of Turin:

Fun in the city discovering the symbols and messages that speak of its secret history and the magic world connected to it. Guided visit to the Egyptian Museum, a treasure house of ancient esoteric knowledge.

Being a brief history and loose inventory of various items of interest in the Turin Egyptian Museum Collections. In 1536 Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Savoy, moved the capital of his kingdom from Chambery to Turin. In 1537, during the works on the Turin Citadel, a statue basement was uncovered, with a dedication to Egyptian Goddess Isis. The first nucleus of the Turin collection dates back to the year 1753, when botanist Vitaliano Donati first brought in Italy the statues (300 pieces) recoveder from Karnak and Coptos. In 1824, King Carlo Felice acquired the material from the Drovetti collection (3007 pieces), that the French General Consul, Bernardino Drovetti, had built during his stay in Egypt. In the same year, Jean Francois Champollion used the huge Turin collection of papyruses to test his breakthroughs in deciphering the hyerogliphic writing. The time Champollion spent in Turin studying the texts is also at the origin of a legend about the mysterious disappearing of the "Papiro Regio", that was only later found and of which some portions are still unavailable. In 1950 a parapsichologist was contacted to pinpoint them, to no avail. Incidentally, the budding collection in Turin forced other institutions around the world to improve their Egyptian wings. In 1833 the collection of Piedmontese Giuseppe Sossio (over 1200 pieces) was added to the Egyptian Museum. Finally, the collection was complemented and completed by the finds of Egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli, during his excavation campaigns between 1900 and 1920.

Quite a few of the objects in the Turin Museum (the second in the world after the Cairo Museum) have through the years gathered an aura of legend that often surfaces in strange tales. From the legendary origins of Turin as a settlement sacred to Isis, to the stories of ghosts roaming the halls of the Museum, the legends have been an integral part of the collections, and have sometimes made the news, for the delight of the paranormal enthusiasts and the amusement of the skeptics. Here are some of the most noteworthy pieces, together with some of their history and legend.

" the Magic of Turin

The way the story goes, TURIN is a city divided between White magic and Black Magic, between the forces of Good and of Evil Turin is one point of a Black Magic triangle that includes Prague and Lyon. But it's also one point of a White Magic triangle connecting Turin with San Francisco and London. The opposing forces are at work within the city, which is said to have two hearts. The white heart is near the Piazza Castello, where the Sacred Shroud is stored. The dark heart is in Piazza Statuto, location of the Gate of Hell. Fittingly, that's where the Magic Turin tour starts. "We will begin in the darkness and move toward the light. The tour covers everything from Nostradamus (who lived here briefly) to Leonardo Da Vinci, from Baroque castles to Freemason door carvings, from the Shroud to the Grail to Dan Brown. Yes those familiar with the tour suspect the author of the mega-bestselling "The Da Vinci Code" might have done this tour. Indeed, walking the narrow, crazy-angled streets of City Centro, beneath the menacing or anguished faces of the grotesque stone carvings on many buildings, you half expect to see one of Brown's rogue clergymen or skilled assassins appear from a doorway. There is history behind all the superstitions. Like most old European cities, Turin has a bloody past. The Inquisitions, plagues, witch hunts - a lot of bad stuff happened here. The Piazza Statuto lay outside the original Roman walls of the city, on the West side. There were no cemeteries, so bodies were simply dumped outside the walls.

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"We are on a carpet of dead people"

Many of the old Baroque palaces still stand, but have been converted for other uses. In the financial district, many of these are banks. And that brings us to the Devil's Door. Actually, the enormous wooden door was carved as a hostile gesture by the owner of the palace - kind of a Baroque spite fence. There are carvings of two sweet children, with a rat behind them, plus other evil looking faces and figures. But it's the door knocker that has people lined up to take photos. The solid brass goat's head has two tongues, which upon closer inspection are intertwining snakes. The goat has horns, so it's clearly You-Know-Who. That chill down your spine isn't just from the cold night air. Then another bank's door. On either side, a metal devil is chained to the wall, holding a lamp. The devils appear to be trying to break free and push off the wall, to jump forward. Across the street is a cathedral. "When the bishop looked out his window in the morning they wanted to make sure this was the first thing he saw." , "Money is the rubbish of the devil," and Piedmontese people, perhaps because of ancient occupation by the Celts, love word play and irony. One building has two dog heads carved into the wall, facing a monastery. The visual pun: "Domini canis" or God's dogs, is a play on Dominican. The Freemason stuff is a little more "Da Vinci Code." We can see holes near the base of a building that look like eyes. They are supposed to signify the building housed a Masonic temple. Door carvings contain various symbols. It is said the Holy Grail may be buried in the hills near Turin, that it was brought here in the late 16th Century along with the Shroud. Freemasonry scholars Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight have concluded the Shroud was more likely used on the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay. The White Heart of the city, the Piazza Castello, is where the olimpic medals plaza has been set up. "Magic"comes from the fascination we have in finding and attributing magical properties in certain people and places. " I wouldn't want to dismiss the importance of that." But wait. Something about the statue that looms back in Piazza Statuto resounds. The pile of boulders, strewn with the bodies of suffering men, is topped by a single angel. The angel could well represent Lucifer. "He was the most beautiful of the angels But he was punished for his arrogance, for his hubris. There are many stories where the protagonist is punished for trying to go beyond human limits."

Light and dark. White magic and black magic. "Wherever there is light there must also be shadows."

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