Pantano keeps publishing about the Italian esoteric underground of a century ago. After having focussed on Marco Daffi for a while, this time we get a wealth of information about Daffi’s ‘master’: Giuliano Kremmerz (1861–1930), born Ciro Formisano. Together with The Hermetic Science of Transformation, English speakers now have an wealth of texts of the Italian master.
Pantano’s book contains mostly texts of the Confraternita Terapeutica e Magica di Myriam (Therapeutic and Magic Brotherhood of Myriam). This concerns both organisational information, instructions and rituals.
The 330+ pages also contain texts of Pantano (summeries, memories, etc.) and some ‘related’ texts of followers of Kremmerz.
It is largely not really my cup of tea, but the book makes an interesting compendium of an interesting current. Also interestingly, one of Pantano’s own texts is very critical about Kremmerz, his system and most of his followers.
2026 Manticore Press, isbn 1763861376
