You’re reading a page that, de facto, is the second of a series, even if, when I wrote the previous one, I didn’t know that it would be updated. Given that the blog doesn’t have a public archive, I’m forced to refresh the cited beginning of the story, also because, for sure, its content is known only to a small number of experts. Please read the following excerpt of a page of June, 2020.
I’m going to talk about a lesser-known kind of monument, although very interesting and mysterious. It’s the so called “Alchemical Door”, the only rest of Villa Palombara, the mansion of the Marquis of Pietraforte, a passionate follower of esoteric doctrines, and a frequenter of the esoteric meetings held by queen Christina of Sweden, during her exile in Rome. Around 1650, the Marquis of Pietraforte hosted at Villa Palombara an enigmatic occultist, officially a physician, whose name was Giuseppe Francesco Borri, also known as “Francesco Giustiniani Bono”. Francesco Giustiniani Bono was a disciple of Athanasius Kircher, and a scholar of the works of Paracelsus. According to the tradition, the occultist forgot at the Villa some writings, containing the secret formula of the philosopher’s stone, which had perfectly worked in his laboratory at the old Palazzo Riario. In the following years, the Marquis decided to perpetuate the formula, and asked the great sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini to build 5 external doors to the Villa, under the supervision of Athanasius Kircher. In each one of the doors there was a part of the formula, carved in stone. The Alchemical Door is the only one survived of the 5 doors, and it is, more or less, at the original position, nowadays Vittorio Emanuele II Square in Rome. Be warned, the two statues of the Egyptian demigod Bes have been added successively, and don’t belong to the original Alchemical Door. The 5 doors of Villa Palombara were completed in 1680. There’s a rumor that, in the same year, the occultist Borri knew about the revelation of his secrets and poisoned the violators, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and Athanasius Kircher. Borri officially died in 1695. However, if you compared the portrait of Giuseppe Francesco Borri to the one of the Count of Saint-Germain, another popular occultist who lived after Borri, you would be probably astonished: they seem to be the same person! Moreover, no one exactly knows when the Count of Saint-Germain was born. So, there was another legend, according to which the Count of Saint-Germain was a reincarnation of Giuseppe Francesco Borri. A relevant fact. Understandingly, Villa Palombara was the most important monument to alchemy in the entire world. Who dared to destroy the Villa, except for the Alchemical Door? Of course, a Freemason and a follower of occultism, king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, who hired the architect Gaetano Koch to build a square dedicated to the king himself, after having demolished the most part of the Villa. The square was inaugurated in 1880, exactly 2 centuries after the completion of the Alchemical Door.
In the year 1890, 10 years after the destruction of 4/5 of the alchemical formula, written by Giuseppe Francesco Borri and carved in stone, the president of the council of ministers of Italy, Mr. Francesco Crispi, who was at the same time the minister of Foreign Affairs and the minister of Internal Affairs, nominated a commission of three barons, and gave them the charge of selecting a number of documents among the archive of king Vittorio Emanuele II (above Victor Emmanuel), more precisely the documents that should be classified as not accessible to public, and to be conserved in the archive of the monarchy in Turin. After that, the private archive of the former kings, all members of the Savoia family, has always raised a lot of attention. Why? The interested intellectuals have declared that some documents are important, in order to deepen the history of the Italian kingdom. Well, who really cares about that? Moreover, it seems to me that the royal archive can’t contain relevant and unknown facts regarding the monarchy. Naturally, I have a theory, more bound to alchemy than to history. It’s possible that king Vittorio Emanuele II, before ordering the partial destruction of Villa Palombara, hired someone to faithfully copy the entire alchemical formula of the above, in one, or more documents. With other words, the philosopher stone is real, and might have been reproduced in documents of the monarchy.
The most successful TV series, produced by the Italian public broadcasting company, the RAI, dates back to the year 1971. Its title is “The Sign of Command”, and it’s about alchemy in Rome. A central role in the plot is assigned to a fictional psalm, attributed to Baldassarre Vitali, the Psalm XVII, called “The Psalm of the Double Death”. The music is declared as “inspired to a series of reincarnations of a powerful alchemist, named Ilario Brandani”. However, as you can read above, the powerful alchemist Giuseppe Francesco Borri truly lived in Rome, and might be reincarnated in France. More, the secret documents of the TV series, perhaps, truly exist, are not the same mentioned in the fictional work, and belong to the private archive of the Savoia family.
Is this the end of the story? For now, yes. Despite, I don’t know the future. Of course, the mini-mix of the page is dedicated to royal secrets, so much hidden that it's hard to believe in their existence.
File name is “Max Look’s mini-mix, king size secrets of kings (July 2024)”, 35’ of pop and rock music, royally danceable.
The royal playlist:
Intro = excerpt of Romolo Grano – salmo tragico da ‘Il Segno del Comando’ (1929-1971), known as “The Psalm of the Double Death, number 17, by Baldassarre Vitali”
Asia – kings of the day (2001)
John Hiatt – riding with the king (1983)
Pet Shop Boys – king of Rome (2009)
Simple Minds – king is white and in the crowd (instrumental) (1982)
First Aid Kit – king of the world (2012)
Go West – king of wishful thinking (1990)
Gary Byrd and the G.B. Experience – the crown (instrumental) (1983)
Thompson Twins – king for a day (instrumental) (1985)
Metallica – king nothing (1996)
R.E.M. – king of comedy (1994)
Years and Years – king (2015)
XTC – king for a day (1989)
Aerosmith – kings and queens (1977)
Police – king of pain (1983)
Army of Lovers – king Midas (1995)
