THE
DIEGO ARANDOJO JORGE FANTONI
Chapter One
The Wisdom Stone
Buenos Aires. 1900.
Have you started already?
A few minutes ago...
We have called all of you together... ...to announce the new secretary general of this venerable organization.
After strenuous debate, we have concluded that, of all the available candidates, this man is the finest choice.
We have no doubt that, hand in hand with the new century that is just beginning, he will guide our group’s destiny down the path of wisdom.
Without further ado, I invite our new secretary to come up.
Alejandro Sorondo. Rama de Luz Brotherhood.“I
“I felt appalingly defenseless, and certain that some adverse element was stirred into my life like a poison.”
“At the same time, curiosity devoured me. I was sliding downhill and could no longer stop. Through a continuous tension of will, I managed to keep up appearances for the world.”
“But little by little, the power awakened in me grew more rebellious.”
“A prolonged distraction caused a splitting.”
“As these impressions grew more vivid, producing in me an agonizing lucidity, I resolved one night to confront my double.”*
*(“An Inexplicable Phenomenon,” Strange Forces )
felt as if my self were suddenly outside of me; my body seemed like an affirmation of non-self, I say as a concrete description of the sensation.”
What’s that?
Just a bit...
...more...
Leopoldo, be careful!
Cerro Colorado, Córdoba. 1902.
All right, Carlos!
...and...
As the story goes, he found the pictographs by chance.
Others claim that Lugones was “guided” by the voices of the ancients...
...who made sure he spotted those deeply symbolic graphical relics.
in 1903, a year after the find, he published the article “The Painted Caves of Cerro Colorado” in the pages of La Nación newspaper.
The revelation of the pictographs made a huge splash. It even attracted the Scottish explorer and professor G. A. Gardner, who in 1931 published his monograph Rock-Paintings of North-West Córdoba.
Lugones’s esotericism continued. It manifested, both directly and indirectly, not only in his literary work but in the rest of his life.
