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Los secretos del tarot

By Marqués de Montferrat

This volume presents a rigorous and deeply structured exploration of the Major Arcana of the Tarot, setting them apart from superficial or merely fortune-telling interpretations. In the tradition of the Marquis of Montferrat, the Tarot is not a tool for prediction but a symbolic language of knowledge, capable of revealing the inner laws of consciousness and the processes of its transformation.

Through a demanding and coherent approach, this work presents the arcana as stages of an inner journey, in which each figure, each number, and each gesture acquires precise meaning within an ordered system. The Tarot thus emerges as a pathway to understanding, where the symbol does not replace experience but illuminates it, structures it, and renders it intelligible.

Far from any closed doctrinal system, this treatise belongs to the realm of the great symbolic traditions, offering readers an interpretive framework that integrates thought, contemplation, and inner discipline. Its purpose is not to teach how to “use” the Tarot but to learn to read within it—that is, to recognize in its images the enduring forms of knowledge.

Published by The Golden Pelican Group and sponsored by the Rosy Cross Foundation, this book inaugurates a new editorial initiative dedicated to the dissemination of works of profound symbolic and doctrinal value.

Directed to both scholars of symbolism and readers seeking deeper understanding, The Secrets of the Tarot stands as a reference work for those who wish to approach the Tarot as a path of knowledge rather than mere interpretive practice.

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leo tus labios

By Manuel Santiago Acedo Fernández

What happens when the world doesn’t seem made for you?

This is not a story of pity or defeat. It’s a story of life, of silent struggle, and of everyday victories. Since childhood, the author has lived with disability: first a lack of muscle tone, then deafness, later vision loss. But instead of letting himself be defined by what he lacked, he decided to focus on everything he could build with what he had.

Through these pages, Manuel Santiago Acedo Fernández shares a deeply human account, full of learning, resilience, and moments that invite us to rethink what we believe we know about disability. Writing becomes his refuge, and his voice—firm, clear, brave—reminds us that there are no barriers greater than those we accept for ourselves.

This autobiography doesn’t just tell a story; it delivers a powerful message: the real disability is giving up.

And you, reader, when you close this book, you’ll take away more than words. You’ll take away hope.

Because if he could do it, you can too.

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the order of saint stephen of the house of medici

By Francisco Acedo Fernández

Founded in 1561 by Cosimo I de’ Medici through a papal bull, the Order of Saint Stephen Pope and Martyr was conceived as a naval militia in the service of Christendom and as an instrument for consolidating the newly established Tuscan state. Over the centuries, its military, religious, and noble character made it one of the principal institutional pillars of Medicean Tuscany.

This volume offers a historical-critical and juridical study of the Order from its foundation to the present day. It examines the bull His quae pro Religionis propagatione, the symbolic and heraldic configuration of the institution, its role in shaping Tuscan nobility, its development under the Lorraine dynasty, and the complex question of succession following the extinction of the Popolano branch of the Medici.

The work includes in full the formal protest of H.R.H. Grand Duke Ottaviano de’ Medici of Tuscany of Ottajano concerning the Grand Mastership of the Order, presenting it as a key document for understanding the contemporary dimension of the dynastic question. This protest—grounded in precise historical and juridical arguments—is incorporated into the broader analysis of institutional continuity and of the historical rights of the Neapolitan branch of the Medici, providing readers with direct access to a document of particular relevance.

The author, Francisco Acedo Fernández, historian and King of Arms of the House of Medici, brings both an academic and a technical-heraldic perspective to the subject, allowing the Order to be examined with methodological rigor and documentary foundation. The research is based exclusively on authentic and verifiable sources, avoiding both simplifications and apologetic interpretations.

Among the principal topics addressed in the book:

A scholarly, structured, and fully documented study intended for specialists in early modern history, nobiliary law, and orders of chivalry, as well as for readers interested in the institutional tradition of Tuscany and the historical continuity of the House of Medici.

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Cáceres. paseo por la eternidad

By Francisco Acedo Fernández

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Cáceres. A Walk Through Eternity is both a scholarly and evocative journey through one of the most beautiful and singular cities in Spain. Through its streets, palaces, convents, and squares, Francisco Acedo Fernández—historian, genealogist, and member of prestigious international academies—invites us to discover the living memory of Cáceres: its legends, its noble past, its medieval and Renaissance legacy, and the spiritual imprint that makes it a unique place suspended in time.

With a style that is both accessible and rigorous, the author weaves together history, art, and tradition, offering the reader not only a cultural guide but also a meditation on the permanence and beauty that dwell in the eternal stones of the city.

An essential book for those who love Cáceres, for travelers who wish to immerse themselves in its deepest essence, and for all who seek to understand how the past dialogues with eternity.

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la belleza inútil. el antínoo de fernando pessoa

By Francisco Acedo Fernández

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The Useless Beauty is a comprehensive critical study by Francisco Acedo Fernández on Antinous, one of Fernando Pessoa’s most intense yet least disseminated poems. Originally written in English, this decadentist text evokes the relationship between Emperor Hadrian and Antinous, the young man of legendary beauty whose death in the Nile inspired a cult and a myth that have endured for centuries.

The study situates the poem within the context of European Decadentism, the classical tradition, and Pessoa’s wider oeuvre, exploring its language, cultural references, and symbolic weight. In particular, it analyzes the relevance of the poem within the history of literature and the representation of love and desire between men, offering an LGBTQ+ perspective that enriches both its meaning and its contemporary resonance.

Through an extensive apparatus of notes, historical, mythological, and literary allusions are clarified, as well as the aesthetic and philosophical keys of the text. The book is accompanied by original illustrations by Ángel Álvarez de Sotomayor, which visually interpret the intensity and sensuality of Pessoa’s work.

The Useless Beauty is, therefore, an invitation to rediscover a fundamental poem for understanding Pessoa’s universe, and a work that engages with the great themes of beauty, eros, and memory from an erudite, sensitive, and contemporary perspective.

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El ciclo rosacruz

By Marqués de Montferrat

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The Rosicrucian Cycle is a unique work that brings together poems, meditations, and visions inspired by the mystery of the Rose Cross. Through poetic and symbolic language, the book traces the great spiritual milestones of the Rosicrucian tradition: from its mythical origins in Egypt to the revelations of Christian Rosenkreutz, passing through figures such as Lazarus of Bethany and the Count of Saint-Germain.

This poetic cycle is not merely a literary collection but an initiatory journey. Each poem is conceived as a key that opens a door to the invisible, an invitation to discover the depth of Rosicrucian symbols and their resonance within the soul.

A book for those who seek to:

The Rosicrucian Cycle is more than a book of poetry: it is a testimony of mystical experience and a bridge between history, legend, and inner light.

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SCALA. MEDITACIONES DE SILENCIO, FUEGO Y LUZ

By Marqués de Montferrat

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he 999 Aphorisms of the Marquis de Montferrat

For the first time, the central work of one of the great spiritual transmitters of the late twentieth century is published in its entirety. Scala gathers 999 brief and essential aphorisms that do not aim to instruct but to awaken.

Each phrase is a step, a spark, an invitation to cross the threshold of the known and enter the realm within. These reflections traverse the Three Temples—the Inner, the Sacerdotal, and the Arcane—in a journey of transformation that belongs to no closed doctrine, but to the universal Tradition.

For decades, these texts circulated solely among select disciples. Today, for the first time, they are presented to the contemporary reader, preserving their original structure and their deliberately unadorned language.

A unique book that is not simply read: it is inhabited.

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La vía de los tres templos del marqués de montferrat

by C. de Lavarello

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La Vía de los Tres Templos of the Marquis of Montferrat is a unique work that, for the first time, unveils the complete initiatory system of one of the great hidden Masters of the 20th century. Conceived in silence and transmitted through an unbroken line of esoteric filiation, this spiritual path unfolds across three temples: the Martinist, the sacerdotal-theurgical, and the Rosicrucian Arcanum.

Drawing from unpublished documents, ritual transmissions, and direct testimonies of the Marquis—preserved and curated by his disciple C. de Lavarello—this book presents the texts, teachings, and inner structures that form a true synthesis of Western traditional currents. From the restoration of original Martinism and the theurgy of the Élus Coën to the Gnostic resurrection and the Hermetic vision of the Rite of Memphis-Misraïm, each stage of the Path is described with depth, symbolic precision, and doctrinal beauty. Today, its legacy continues through the operational system of IESGenève.

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