“Associazione Culturale” a S.P.H.C.I. Fr+ Tm+ di Miriam

“Associazione Culturale” a S.P.H.C.I. Fr+ Tm+ di Miriam

The history from 1921 to 1950

when Luciano Galleani (Iesboama) died in 1921, Kremmerz dissolved the Accademia Vergiliana in Rome. It was changed into the Circolo Vergiliano and put in the hands of Giovanni Bonabitacola, a doctor from Puglia who was a member of Miriam and employed by the Accademia Pitagora in Bari, and thus by Borracci (Cajetel). At the end of 1923, the Fascists ordered the Accademia in Bari to be closed down and, as a result, the activities of the Circolo Vergiliano in Rome were also interrupted.
The advent of Fascism obliged the Schola and all its members to carry out their activities in a reserved manner.
In 1930 Kremmerz passed away and the only remaining Masters were Giacomo Borracci (Cajetel) and Domenico Lombardi (Benno), who continued their mandate with the greatest possible reserve, as they waited for the Egyptian Order to return from New York and decide upon the future of the Schola.
It should be said that the future organisation of the Schola had already been decided in 1916, and that of the three Masters, Borracci, Galleani and Lombardi, the last-mentioned had been chosen as the future General Delegate of Miriam. It was thus in the full exercise of his rights that, in 1947 and 1948, Domenico Lombardi (Benno) summoned all members in all parts of Italy to unite them under the General Delegation chaired by him.
Not all members responded to the directives of the General Delegate and, as a result, in 1950 the only regular and orthodox academy was the Accademia Pitagora of Bari, directed by Master Donato De Cristo (Harael). He was confirmed in this position by the Egyptian Order which, in the meantime, had returned to its headquarters in Naples, where it stayed until 1951.

 
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