Everything can only be understood in its entirety, and this is not radical monism. However, due to the limitations of the “field” of our mind we can at most imagine segments. It is therefore not surprising that the too-vast wisdom of the ancients was first dissected into laboratory alchemy, theurgy, philosophy and sound art, and then, inevitably, exploded into the vastness of detail. Ultimately, our cognitive limits separated physics, biology and consciousness from each other. Already Socrates commented as incomprehensible those who are today known as pre-Socratics, because they mostly derived mythological symbolism from physics, and not from philosophical speculation. Yet, beyond the knowledge acquired by the individual sciences, we are left with the task of understanding. Despite the fact that philosophical views continue to vacillate from one system to another, we cannot avoid this task unless we transform ancient learning into meaningless chaos.

Her name meant Wisdom, but also a skill – or the intelligence of cunning – Métis was exercised on very different levels, but always for practical purposes: the bricklayer, the politician, the helmsman, the weaver… all protean realities that did not lend themselves to the immutable reasoning of abstract philosophical conjecture, and one which philosophers hastened to reject as ‘non-knowledge’. It is therefore necessary for the modern scholar to undertake a similar path and not disdain starting with the basic understanding of laboratory Alchemy; and only then, through the principles of ancient physics and mathematics, to aim at Theurgy. A system so complex that it can even be compared to a “game”. Because, for deities, capturing a human being has always been difficult. In fact, among some ancient cultures, the sacred game was considered more similar to a sacred hunt than a pastime with no other consequence than a momentary setting aside of reality.

Socrates considered the pre-Socratics enigmatic also because of their writing in aphorisms without narrative and consequential links. Scholars of ancient cultures know well that too often those much desired connections are mere repetitions of the same concept expressed only with different words. Apart from some unexpected deviations, of course, for which we unfortunately prepare ourselves by slavishly repeating the ocean of words. This attitude would be considered unscientific by anyone with minimal experience of mental organization. For this reason, this website stopped at a planned moment… looking like unfinished work (the Romans would call it Opus Imperfectum). But, anyone who takes the trouble to read everything (and not let some AI summarize) will see that they have been provided with all the information to avoid mental chaos.