Biographical notes - 1

J.M. KREMM-ERZ, simplified as Giuliano Kremmerz, is the pseudonym of Ciro Formisano, born in Portici, near Naples, on 8 April 1861. He was a philosopher, therapeutist and thaumaturgist, and founded the S.P.H.C.I (Schola Philosophica Hermetica Classica Italica) Fratellanza Terapeutica Magica di Miriam, with exclusively therapeutic aims for the benefit of all, and still in operation today.
Ciro Formisano soon made contact with Pasquale De Servis, known to scholars of magic hermeticism of that time as IZAR and in linked to the Italic roots of initiatory tradition – the tradition that, prior to Christianity, had flourished in Magna Graecia in the Pythagorean School, which had taken in the Isiacal and Osirian cults from Egypt. Virtually buried under the effects of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 BC, this tradition had later attempted to re-emerge in various forms, disguised in the works and thoughts of some of the greatest names in culture and medicine, such as Dante and the Fedeli d’Amore [the Brotherhood of the Faithful in Love], Cecco d’Ascoli, Pico della Mirandola, Marsilio Ficino [Marsilius Ficinus], Giordano Bruno, Cornelio Agrippa, and Paracelsus, all the way through to Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero, and to the Count of Cagliostro in the eighteenth century and, in more recent times, to the esoteric currents in the Italian Risorgimento.