PART ONE -- Saturday & Sunday, May 26-27, 2001 --

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Saturday Program:
The program begins Saturday at 1 PM, with a meeting of those presenting or wishing to present materials for the program on any related topic.Informal meeting and introductions.
2:30 PM -- Johnes Ruta, Independent Art Curator; director, The York Square Gallery, New Haven, CT; historical Art Theorist and esoteric essayist; software design consultant and relational database computer engineer.   New Haven, CT.
Lecture:  "UNITY  DUALITY  TRINITY"   -- a chronological background of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic texts in the Dualism of the ancient Near East, ancient Greek mythic esotericism , and Roman Christian "Pneumatic" theology;   & their echoes in the Neo-Pagan Gnosis of the Renaissance.
 
3:30 PM -- Robert Cuneo, Professor of Art, University of Bridgeport, retired. Esoteric historian. Magic Realist painter, and illustrator under penname "Fra Mercurius."  Lecture: "Thoth, Osiris, & Hermes Trismegistus :  Hieroglyphics,  Hierophants & Hermetics."

4:30 PM -- Carl Pfluger, contributing writer to The Southwest Review, GQ,
 Harper’s Magazine;  Historian, Herodotus scholar. Quebec, Canada.
Lecture: "Gnostic Dread : the Spiritual Anarchy of an Anti-Cosmic Insurgency."   Also discussing the evolution of "history" in the writings of Herodotus, Heraclitus, and the philosophers of Atomism and Rationalism.

6:00 -- Gourmet Dinner provided by Cafe' Gina of North Branford, CT.

6:30 PM -- Peter Champoux, author of the book "Gaia Matrix, " a writer whose work can be described as "a Gnosis of the Land. "  http://www.arkhom.org. In his presentation:  "The Geometry of Landscape,"   he identifies how subtle psychic characteristics of the land are manifested by local human culture in language, music, and behavior.



Sunday program:
12:00 -- Lunch & appetisers, provided by Cafe' Gina.

2:00 PM - Kathleen Damiani, Ph.D., writer & professor of Philosophy, Ithaca, NY.
Lecture: "Sophia & the Dragon"  -- Near Eastern & Western esoteric traditions at the core of Gnosis, and their realization in the synchronicity of modern life.

3:00 PM -- Steve Bass, A.I.A, Architect; professor at the Institute for Classical Architecture, New York City, NY.
Lecture: "Pythagorean Qualitative Numbers and Plato's Quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy." Also, the use of magic in classical religion and aesthetics.

4:30 PM -- Ramon Satyendra, Professor of Music Theory and Composition, Yale School of  Music, New Haven, CT.
An original music composition: the completion of an unfinished piano work by the theospohist Alexander Scribin; and will discuss Pythagorean harmonic musical structure, and their correlates in the Hindi 7:22 tala and the paleography of medieval Western notation.

5:15 PM -- The Kathryn Kollar Dance Company.

6:00 -- Gourmet Dinner provided by Cafe' Gina.

6:00 PM -- Alvin Holm, A.I.A., Architect, lecturer on Vitruvius and the Five Orders of Classical Architecture, and symbolic geometry. Philadelphia, PA.
Lecture: "Shakespeare's Globe Theatre as a Proto-Renaissance Building"-- the embodyment of Celtic and Roman design principles from Stonehenge and Vitruvius.

7:30 PM -- Greg Garvey, Professor of Design & Graphic Arts, Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT.
Lecture: "The Smart Stall: Marcel Duchamp's "R.Mutt;" Antonin Artaud the Gnostic & the modern surrender to the user interface."

For information, please contact :
Project Curator: Johnes Ruta, (203) 387-4933
azothgallery@comcast.net

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