By Massimo Scaligero

“…The Mystery of Androgyny can be contemplated as a moment of our formative power as human beings, which arose from our ability to gather forces more elevated and, therefore, deeper, relative to the lunar element strengthened on the physical plane by the Sun’s separation from the Earth. The currents capable of ruling the lower lunar element, would be recognizable in the aforementioned symbol of the Virgin that corresponds to the aspect of the Isis-Sophia. We will see during the course of the present study how the path toward restoring Androgyny’s radical force is the undertaking alluded to in the saga of the Grail and likewise corresponds to the symbol of Isis Sophia. This (Isis-Sophia), in fact, takes on and redeems within itself the tenebrous Hecate. We will see, in any case, why woman holds the keys to the reintegration of man (so that the Virgin would be called Janua Coeli) and how the present civilization can risk permanently losing the sense of such a reintegration, by reducing woman to man’s erotic companion, or to a mere begetter of children…”

Massimo Scaligero (born Antonio Sgabelloni: 1906-1980), was an Italian spiritual teacher who fathomed the depths of both Eastern and Western esoteric streams (particularly, yoga and Anthroposophy) through direct experience. He was an independent spiritual researcher, who emphasized the path of living thinking (La Via del Pensiero), epistemologically aligned with Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom. He is the author of a number of works including The Light (La Luce), The Secrets of Space and Time, A Treatise on Living Thinking, A Practical Manual of Meditation, The Logic Against Humanity, The Logos and the New Mysteries, as well as his autobiography, From Yoga to the Rose Cross, all published by

Lindisfarne Books.