David PantanoAlchemical Hermeticism
The Secret Teachings of Marco Daffi on Initiation
David Pantano is a writer, translator, historian, and lecturer specializing in spirituality, philosophy, and the initiatic practices of West and East. Author of The Magic Door and translator of The Hermetic Physician, he lives in Toronto.
Foreword
by Valerio Tomassini
Introduction
PART 1
The Philosophy of Hermetic Magic
Collected Works of Marco Daffi
Prologue to Part One
Sermones ad Vivos
Giammaria
Alchemical Hermeticism
Articles from Ulisse
What Is Magic For Those Who Cultivate It
The Doctrine of Initiation and Neo-Buddhism
Commentary on “The Mirror of The Virgins”
Dissertamina
Dissertations on Hermeticism
PART 2
Confidential and Philosophical Letters
On Initiation, Alchemy, and Conscious Existence
Prologue to Part Two
Epistolario Filosofico (Philosophical Epistolary)
Extracts of the Hermetic Laboratory
Epistolario Confidenziale (Confidential Epistolary)
PART 3
Vitae Daffianae
A Life in Alchemical Hermeticism
Prologue to Part Three
Before the War
The Trial of the Magus
After the War
Obituaries
PART 4
The Legacy of Marco Daffi
Commentaries and Remembrances
Prologue to Part Four
Giammaria Remembers
Giammaria
Interview with Hermanubis
Conducted by N. R. Ottaviano
Remembering Marco Daffi
N. R. Ottaviano
The Magical Baron
Piero Fenili
The Voice
Giammaria
Don Ricciardo
Auri Campolonghi Gonella
Postscript
Annotated Bibliography: Marco Daffi’s Opera Omnia
Index