Kremmerz e Ordine Osirideo Egizio/en

📚 Fonte primaria: opere di Giuliano Kremmerz (1861-1930)
Questa pagina deriva dalle opere di Giuliano Kremmerz (pseudonimo di Ciro Formisano, 1861-1930) — esoterista napoletano, fondatore della Fratellanza Terapeutica e Magica di Myriam (1896), autore della monumentale La Scienza dei Magi e di Il Mondo Secreto. Kremmerz è una delle figure più importanti dell'ermetismo italiano del primo Novecento e di un punto di riferimento per il Gruppo di UR-KRUR di Julius Evola e Arturo Reghini. La sua sintesi fra terapia magnetica, alchimia operativa, ermetismo e cabala napoletana è una fonte cardinale per il magnetismo ermetico mediterraneo. Documenti Drive ISI-CNV: 📁 Folder Kremmerz — cartella Drive ISI-CNV con le opere di Kremmerz digitalizzate. Opere chiave di Kremmerz (riferimento): G. Kremmerz, La Scienza dei Magi (raccolta degli scritti pubblicata postuma), 4 voll., Roma, Mediterranee. G. Kremmerz, Il Mondo Secreto (rivista, Napoli, 1896-1900) — pubblicazione ufficiale della Fratellanza Terapeutica e Magica di Myriam. G. Kremmerz, Avviamento alla scienza dei Magi (manuale di base). G. Kremmerz, Le Pagine della «Sfinge» — Avviamento alla scienza dei Magi, Napoli. Pubblicazioni della Schola Philosophica Hermetica Classica Italica (Myriam) sulla terapeutica magica.

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The Ordine Osirideo Egizio (also called Ordine Egizio or O∴E∴) is the Neapolitan current — discreet, aristocratic, never public — which has preserved the Arcana Arcanorum in Italy since the late eighteenth century. Its best-known exoteric vehicle (i.e., accessible from the outside) is the Fraternità Terapeutica e Magica di Myriam founded by Giuliano Kremmerz (Ciro Formisano, 1861–1929). The distinction between the two structures — internal custodial Order + exoteric didactic-therapeutic Fraternity — is the key point for understanding the current.

I. The origin: Naples, late 18th century

[VERIFIED] The Order's internal dossier reconstructs the Neapolitan origin as follows: the initiation of the French brother Gad Bédarride (a French officer alongside the insurgents of the Neapolitan Republic of 1799) into the Arcana Arcanorum was performed by the Supreme Pontiff of the Order Mario Pagano, assisted by Pasquale Cirillo and Antonio Palomba («as results from our Archives»). Bédarride had three sons: to the one who emigrated to Belgium he transmitted the Arcana Arcanorum, while the other two received only a letter-patent of the Misraïm with which they created the Judeo-Cabalistic system of 90 degrees.

[VERIFIED — Loggia Aletheia] A more sober historiographic reconstruction traces the roots to a continuity in the Regio Nilensis of Naples — a district where an ancient Pythagorean center merged with the Isiac cults between Naples and Cumae. This stratification was preserved, after the destruction of pagan worship by Theodosius, in the city's underground (the subterranean network of Naples is a documented archaeological reality). The symbolic testimony of this continuity is the seal of the first Neapolitan Lodge, "La Perfetta Unione", which bears a pyramid and sphinx with the legend «Latomorum fraternitas — Brotherhood of the Caves».

🔗 Source: Plutarch, Iside e Osiride, trans. M. Cavalli, Adelphi 1985, par. 14-15 (cited as canonical reference for the Osirian myth); E. Hornung, on the Rosicrucian movement and the Order of the Golden Rose 1757 (Alexandrian priest Ormus, mythical founder of the Egyptian-Christian chain); Kremmerz, La Sapienza dei Magi, vol. II p. 196, Fratelli Melita 1987 (account of the transmission through Mamor Rosar Amru, «last of the Pontiffs of Isis» who arrived in Pompeii).

II. The succession of the Pontiffs of the Order

[VERIFIED] The Order's internal dossier lists the chain of Supreme Pontiffs with their respective initiatic names, from the founding generation to Kremmerz:

Supreme Pontiff	Initiatic name	Notes
Mario Pagano	—	supreme pontiff at the time of Bédarride's initiation (1799)
Domenico Bocchini	Sebezyus	next generation
Orazio de Attelis	Sette Ali	successor
Filippo Lebano	Tatau-R	pontiff of the Risorgimento era
Giustiniano Lebano	Sairitis Hus	son of the previous; marries Virginia, granddaughter of Domenico Bocchini, strengthening ties between aristocratic families (De Sangro–D'Aquino–Caetani)
(from 1910)	Ekatlos / Ottaviano = Leone Caetani	prince of Teano, duke of Sermoneta, grandson of Michelangelo Caetani

[VERIFIED] The Synedrius (apex of the Order) at the time of Italian Unification included: Filippo Lebano (Tatau-R) and Giustiniano (Sairitis Hus); Pasquale de Servis (Izhar Ben Escur); Antonio de Santis (Iatricus); Gaetano Petriccione (Morenius); Domenico Angher (Teseus); Michelangelo Caetani (Rumon); Salvatore di Nociglia (Ehy); Vincenzo Bortone (Heptameron); Achille Bortone (Apis); Paolo Antonio di Caramanico (Taum). All had «fully completed the Hermetic Path», forged in exile or in Bourbon prisons — except Prince Michelangelo Caetani, a subject of the Papal State.

[VERIFIED] The direct external emanation of the Order was the Rito di Misraïm, Regime (or Scala) di Napoli — a Masonic order with lodges, chapters, senates, and areopagi in which the corresponding degrees were practiced. The distinction is crucial: the Ordine Osirideo is the internal initiatic structure, the Regime di Napoli is its exoteric Masonic organ.

III. The Giustiniano Lebano – Papus – Memphis-Misraïm node

[VERIFIED] Don Giustiniano Lebano, during his exile in France and Piedmont, met Gérard Encausse (Papus) and appreciated «his human charge, his generosity, and his attempt to rectify the Martinist Obediences and the lodges of Memphis-Misraïm». Protocols of friendship were established between the Neapolitan Order and the obediences led by Papus (Martinism, Gnostic Church, Order of Memphis-Misraïm).

[VERIFIED] Decisive consequence: «the degrees of the Scala di Napoli Arcana-Arcanorum 87, 88, 89, 90 were entrusted to Memphis-Misraïm but, obviously, for the purpose of rectifying the inevitable deviations that such Academies operated». In other words, the Neapolitan Order delivered externally a part of its highest degrees to Papus to rectify the French obedience — but kept the core for itself, not entrusted.

This is the documented historical link between the Régime di Napoli and the French offshoots of the Egyptian Rite that the wiki has already presented in Le Filiazioni dei Riti Egizi — the framework of the page on offshoots should be integrated with this data.

IV. The figure of Leone Caetani (Ekatlos)

[VERIFIED] From 1910 the Supreme Pontiff of the Order was Leone Caetani (1869–1935), prince of Teano and duke of Sermoneta, grandson of Michelangelo. Leone Caetani was historiographically known as a great orientalist and author of the Annali dell'Islam (10 vols., 1905–1926): a prominent academic figure and politically engaged. The Order's dossier identifies Caetani with the initiatic pseudonym N.R. Ottaviano (editorial-initiatic name Ekatlos), under which he wrote articles published in Kremmerzian journals (particularly the Commentarium).

[VERIFIED] Documented excerpts of the self-portrait of «Ottaviano» in the Commentarium of 1910 show the pagan, Pythagorean, and aristocratic nature of the current: «I divide the world into the vulgar and the wise, the wise use this little to defend themselves from the vulgar… I believe that this wisdom I am interested in [is] the patrimony of the few for the governance of inferiors, therefore the Magus [is] king and not the Magus who becomes the free servant of the curious and the idle». This is the doctrinal posture of the Order: integral initiatic tradition, not popular nor "democratic", which preserves an effective knowledge.

V. Giuliano Kremmerz (Ciro Formisano, 1861–1929)

[VERIFIED] Kremmerz — pseudonym of the Neapolitan physician Ciro Formisano — was a member of the Ordine Osirideo Egizio and became its exoteric didactic arm. His historical work was the foundation (1896) of the Schola Philosophica Hermetica Classica Italica and the Accademie Myriamiche — the didactic network that brings the instrument of the Order to a wider audience of adepts.

[VERIFIED] The Accademie Myriamiche organize the Fraternità Terapeutica e Magica di Myriam, which applies the techniques of natural and ceremonial magic (particularly the ritual of Myriam as a therapeutic-magnetic practice) — the operational port of a core that remains reserved. The Order's dossier explains: «Kremmerz presented this project to the Sanhedrin of the Order, encountering considerable opposition especially from Leone Caetani». The compromise was that Kremmerz carried forward the public project, but Caetani maintained a role of surveillance and correction through his articles in Kremmerzian journals (under the pseudonym Ottaviano).

[VERIFIED] The distinction between Kremmerz and Caetani on disincarnate entities is documented and central: Kremmerz distinguished genii (entities created by man) from aeons (entities not produced by man); the criticism of Caetani-Ottaviano questioned his subdivisions, bringing the discourse back to the more rigorous Gnostic doctrine. This is a technical debate internal to the current, not a conflict: «and Kremmerz acknowledged the error through the sufferings and troubles he incurred from 1897».

🔗 Sources on Kremmerz: Kremmerz, La Sapienza dei Magi, Fratelli Melita, Milan 1987 (modern reprint); Boyer Secrets… p. 153, p. 8507 (on Kremmerz's alchemical practices, particularly the igneous entity); Amelio, «Centenaire kremmerzien», in L'Esprit des Choses n° 18, 1997.

VI. Mamor Rosar Amru and the myth of transmission

[VERIFIED — Loggia Aletheia] Kremmerz himself recounts the arrival of Egyptian wisdom in Naples in the form of the story of Mamor Rosar Amru, a mysterious figure identified as the «last of the Pontiffs of Isis», who would have arrived in Pompeii to refound the Isiac rites on the Campanian coast (La Sapienza dei Magi, vol. II p. 196).

Methodological note. This is a foundation myth — an internal account that the current gives of itself — and should be treated as such: not as an externally verified historical fact, but as a document of the Order's self-awareness. Loggia Aletheia comments: «beyond history proven by ascertainable facts there are obscurities that can only be accepted or rejected». The wiki page accepts the myth as an element of tradition, distinct from documented historical facts (chain Pagano → Lebano → Caetani; Lebano-Papus relations; foundation of Myriam 1896).

VII. Placement with respect to mesmerism, alchemy, the Arcana Arcanorum

With respect to the Arcana Arcanorum

The Ordine Osirideo Egizio is the Italian custodian of the Arcana Arcanorum — the page on the Arcana Arcanorum presents its structure and doctrine (theurgy / metallic alchemies / internal alchemies; three paths of immortality; two Isiac-Osirian phases). The Regime di Napoli is the exoteric organ that transmitted degrees 87-90 of the Scala di Napoli to Memphis-Misraïm without ever delivering the core (which remained internal to the Order). Kremmerz and the Fraternità di Myriam are the didactic-therapeutic arm that brings a part of the Order's science to a wider public in an adapted form.

With respect to mesmerism

The Fraternità di Myriam is explicitly a therapeutic-magical structure — one of the clearest Italian operational continuations of the magnetic tradition in the 20th century. Its practices (healing chains, ceremonial evocations, work with subtle fluids) are the continuation, in an initiatic key, of what 18th-century mesmerism had codified in a medical key — see La Massoneria Mesmerica, Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, nodo di Malta 1785. Kremmerz explicitly cites Mesmer among his references and Kremmerz's igneous entity can be described as an advanced operational formulation of the magnetic fluid within the alchemical framework.

With respect to alchemy

The Ordine Osirideo is an integral alchemical current: external metallic practice (in continuity with Borri and the 17th-century Roman alchemists — see Borri, Palombara, Gualdi) and internal alchemy (the two Isiac-Osirian phases of the Arcana Arcanorum, the three paths of Giudicelli). The link with Borri/Palombara/Gualdi is not one of analogy but of identity of core: they are custodians of the same tradition, in different eras and in different structures (the Roman cenacle of Christina of Sweden in the 17th century; the Ordine Osirideo of Naples from 1799).

With respect to Gruppo di UR-KRUR and Evola

The Gruppo di UR-KRUR (1927-1929) is the most significant confluence between the Neapolitan Kremmerzian tradition and the 20th-century attempt to make clear Italian hermetic science. Kremmerz was still alive during the first two years of the journal (he died in 1929, the same year KRUR ceased); the Group explicitly recognizes his stature. Three decisive points:

Evola's essay in KRUR 1929 «Avviamento alla Magia secondo G. Kremmerz» — the main external document of the Kremmerzian current written by an author not internal to the Schola Pythagorica, and therefore valuable for those wishing to approach the doctrine of the Ordine Osirideo Egizio without direct initiatic training. Evola reads Kremmerz as an authentic Master of the Humid Way (Isiac) — distinct but not opposed to the Dry Doric Way practiced by the Group
The doctrine of «simili natures» — a Kremmerzian formulation that the Group explicitly takes up. Iagla in UR 1927 («La Legge degli Enti»: compare UR 1927, pp. 168-176) cites Kremmerz as an authority on the doctrine that residues of unpurified passion in the «pupil» or in the operator project autonomous fluidic entities that become «their own life and feed on the operator's life». See also Operazioni Magiche a Due Vasi — Sdoppiamento section III.A
The model of the magnetic lodge chain — the Kremmerzian practice of the chain (cf. Le Catene Magnetiche di Loggia) is the operational model that the Group applies to its own experimental works of 1927-1928 (cf. the article «Istruzioni di catena» in UR 1927 and «Esperienze di catena» of 1928, in which collaborators report a «presenza già costituitasi» among the group members)

UR-KRUR is therefore — in the cluster map — the bridge point between Kremmerz (uninterrupted operational tradition of the Ordine Osirideo) and the current formulation of the Method Paret-ISI-CNV. The School inherits from Kremmerz the doctrine of integral magnetic operation, and from UR-KRUR the explicit technical exposition that makes it studyable by the serious student before direct initiatic transmission.

VIII. Living practice in the School

Declared section: what follows is operational reference to the living tradition received in the Paret School (ISI-CNV), not an external historiographic reconstruction.

In the School's didactics, some elements that the Kremmerzian current codified are active:

The fundamental distinction between internal initiatic structure and external didactic organ — exactly the model Ordine Osirideo / Fraternità di Myriam — is also applied in the School: the living tradition has its reserved core and has broader didactic forms that convey it without exhausting it.
The therapeutic-magnetic practice that Kremmerz codifies with the ritual of Myriam is directly linked to the magnetic practices that the School teaches as a continuity of the line Puységur–Faria–Du Potet (see also pages on the hypnotic part of the wiki). The healing chains of Myriam are direct relatives of the magnetic lodge chains of the Société de la Concorde of Willermoz.
The Caetanian principle — wisdom as «patrimony of the few for the governance of inferiors» — should not be read in a social key but in an operational key: it describes the asymmetric structure of initiatic transmission, where the Master's responsibility is towards what he preserves, not towards external opinion. It is a posture that the School shares.
Kremmerz's work as a model — a Master who brings a part of the science to the public without betraying the reserved core — is one of the School's operational models: the wiki itself you are reading is a manifestation of this principle (open public level, reserved internal level, methodically maintained distinction).

State of documentation

Statement	Status	Source
Initiation of Gad Bédarride into the Arcana Arcanorum (1799, under Mario Pagano)	✅ VERIFIED (internal documentary testimony)	Dossier Ordine — Drive
Chain of Pontiffs Pagano → Bocchini → de Attelis → Lebano father/son → Caetani	✅ VERIFIED (internal testimony)	same
Synedrius at Italian Unification (11 names documented with initiatic pseudonyms)	✅ VERIFIED	same
Régime di Napoli as the exoteric Masonic organ of the Order	✅ VERIFIED	same
Lebano–Papus relations, entrusting degrees 87-90 to Memphis-Misraïm	✅ VERIFIED	same
Leone Caetani = Ekatlos / Ottaviano, Pontiff from 1910	✅ VERIFIED (internal testimony; external identification confirmed by Loggia Aletheia)	Loggia Aletheia — Drive
Kremmerz = Ciro Formisano, foundation of Schola and Accademie Myriamiche (1896)	✅ VERIFIED	dossier + Boyer
Distinction genii / aeons and Kremmerz-Caetani debate	✅ VERIFIED	dossier; cit. Commentarium 1910
Myth of Mamor Rosar Amru	📘 Internal foundation myth (flagged as such)	Kremmerz, La Sapienza dei Magi II, p. 196, Melita 1987
Continuity Regio Nilensis Naples – underground – «Latomorum fraternitas» (seal Perfetta Unione)	✅ VERIFIED (academic historiography + Masonic symbology)	Loggia Aletheia, citing published sources
Kremmerz, La Sapienza dei Magi, Melita 1987	⚠️ TO BE ACQUIRED on Drive for direct citations	—
Commentarium by Kremmerz (journal)	⚠️ TO BE ACQUIRED for complete citations	historical journal

Sources

La Verità — Ordine Osirideo Egizio, Kremmerz, Arcana Arcanorum, Leone Caetani — Drive ISI-CNV — [VERIFIED — internal documentary testimony of the Order] — primary internal source reconstructing the self-history of the current
Storia dell'Ordine Osirideo Egizio (Loggia Aletheia) — Drive ISI-CNV — [VERIFIED — historiography with academic citations] — more sober reconstruction with published references (Plutarch, Mordini, Hornung, Leonardi, Kremmerz)
Rémi Boyer et al., Secrets de la franc-maçonnerie égyptienne — Drive — [VERIFIED — native text] — for the French framework of Memphis-Misraïm and citations on Kremmerz
Giuliano Kremmerz, La Sapienza dei Magi, 2 vols., Fratelli Melita, Milan 1987 — [primary source by the author; modern reprint of the Opera Omnia]
Plutarch, Iside e Osiride, trans. M. Cavalli, Adelphi, Milan 1985 — [canonical source for the Osirian myth]
Leone Caetani, Annali dell'Islam, 10 vols., 1905–1926 — [Caetani's historiographic work as an Arabist; illuminates his academic stature]