Gelli is still active

Published by L'Espresso magazine in Italy:
Dalla scoperta della lista dei 962 affiliati alla sua loggia segreta, è passato più di un quarto di secolo. Dal 1981 ad oggi Gelli ha accumulato condanne definitive per reati che hanno fatto storia: principale responsabile della bancarotta dell'Ambrosiano di Roberto Calvi; stratega dei più gravi depistaggi del Sismi (la prima delle tante false piste internazionali) per la strage di Bologna. Gelli ha scontato la pena a casa, nella villa aretina intitolata alla moglie Vanda Vannacci, per gravi motivi di salute, che peraltro dieci anni fa non gli impedirono di evadere. Nel 2003, intervistato da 'Repubblica', aveva scherzato sulle analogie tra il suo piano di rinascita e il programma del governo presieduto dal suo più ricco affiliato, Silvio Berlusconi: "Sì, forse dovrei avere i diritti d'autore. La giustizia, la tv, l'ordine pubblico. Ho scritto tutto trent'anni fa". Oggi, festeggiati i 90 anni, Gelli non è solo il custode di segreti di un passato che non passa. È il protagonista di nuovi intrighi. Riceve industriali. Tratta affari. Istruisce colonnelli. Offre appoggi. E fa da consigliere all'organizzatore di una nuova rete di "fratelli".

The Corpus Hermeticum are the core documents of the Hermetic tradition. Dating from the early part of the Christian era, they were mistakenly dated to a much earlier period by Church officials up until the 15th century.

(Photo by authors David Cox and Damian Nabot. At the door Mr. Licio Gelli)

"The doors of all banks vaults open to the right." Licio Gelli

The mysterious donkey, another illustration by Nazari. In some mysteries many keys are needed to unlock the correct door.

From Giovanni Battista Nazari, Il metamorfosi metallico et humano (1564).

This image is directly tied to one of the greatest criminal mysteries. You can learn about it in Enigma.

P2

Stuart Christie in his book Stefano Delle Chiaie writes:
"Freemasonry is, perhaps, the most large-scale political organizaion of the middle-class in every western nation. The Grand Orient of Italy, a particularly powerful institution, is no exception. One important difference between the Grand Orient of Italy and the Grand Lodge of England -- the mother lodge- is the existence in Italy of covered or secret lodges whose membership is unknown even to the council members of the Grand Orient."

As we now know in Italy there were two secret lodges under the Grand Orient of Italy, the P1 and P2. The P2 was controlled by Licio Gelli. As Christie explains Licio Gelli is an old guard fascist from the Mussolini era who fled to Argentina following disclosures that he had been involved in the murder of Italian partisans.

Mithra and the mysteries

One of the most elusive and hotly debated issues in the study of antiquity is the precise nature of the connection between the Iranian deity Mithra and the military Roman Mithraic mystery cult. The cult which venerated Mithra in Roman circles (where he is traditionally known as Mithras), and which enjoyed a life of nearly 400 years, was esoteric, confined to male members of the Roman military and political elite (though traders and even slaves may have been eligible for membership), and demanded a series of seven graded initiation rites. One of our stunned discoveries was to learn who in the present still venerates this deity.

Main Character

Licio Gelli, the Great Master of the Lodge P2, is one of the main characters of the book "Unveiling the enigma" (it will be launched in USA on July). To understand Gelli, one must understand the complex post war years, when western countries identified the Communism as the biggest threat to Europe.
Gelli has long-term close links with the secret services, and various investigations have revealed evidence linking P2 to right-wing terrorist organizations. The membership of the P2 included politicians from all the main political parties, cabinet ministers, members of the police, and army; the heads of the secret services, several managers of banks and public companies, and senior civil servants. Under Gelli, the P2 became the main protagonist of the new phase of the strategy of tension, wich main objetive was to prevent the PCI (Italian Communist Party) from achieving pover in Italy and to reduce its influence in the country.
In December 1987 a Florence assize court sentenced Gelli to eight years' imprisionment for financing an armed band, whose activities included planting bombs on railway lines in Tuscany between 1973 and 1975. Meanwhile, Gelli was hidden in Argentina.

This story could be fiction, but it happened. It was a real conspiracy to desecrate the body of Juan Peron. The book that tells this story is Unveiling the Enigma, The Secret behind the Defiling of Peron’s Corpse. The book will be published in July 2009 by Zumaya Publications.