The Magic Door is a study on myth, magic, and metamorphosis in the Italic (Italian) branch of the Western Inner Traditions. The Magic Door surveys a wide spectrum of esoteric traditions and explores the heroes, schools, and teachings that have provided the foundations for initiation in Italy, from Roman times to the present, in the broader context of an Occidental Tradition.
The overarching themes that constitute this tradition include a perennial Western Empire (Hesperia), Atavistic Resurgences, Heroic Spirit, and internal practices specific to the Ars Italica: Magia, Amatoria, Memoria, Imaginatio, and Insomnium. Initiation in this context, from the Latin initi¿tus, refers to the individual inner journey to identify and integrate with the Principle (Self, Soul, Numen) and the corresponding Tradition (Olympia, Heroi, Aeneades). In this sense, initiation - like Aeneas' quest to reveal his future by finding the roots (principle) - refers to a process of self-discovery, identity, and tradition.
Summary:

Aeneas (archetypal hero of initiation)

Heroic Initiation through the River Mnemosyne

Spiritual Kingship

Hesperia

Myths and Symbols of Ancient Rome

Vestal Virgins & the She-Wolf

Golden Bough and the Italic Tree of Life

Return of the Nostoi (Olympians)

Pythagorean Brotherhoods and the Underground Basilica of Porta Maggiore

Cicero and the Art of Dreaming

Magical Realism of Virgil

Ovid's Ars Amatoria

Apuleius and the Art of Metamorphoses

Symmachus, Last of the Olympians

Macrobius' Commentary on the Dream of Scipio

Dante and the Fedeli d'Amore

Revival of the Platonic Academy in Renaissance Florence

Marsilio Ficino on Divine Love

Pico della Mirandola on the Christian Cabbala

Julius Pomponius Laetus and the Roman Academy

Francesco Colonna and the Strife of Love in a Dream

Hermes Redividus in Ludovico Lazzarelli and Giovanni Mercurio Correggio

Renaissance Origins of the Tarot

Giordano Bruno on the Art of Magic

Tommasso Campanella on the Practice of Philosophical Ecstasy

Cesare Della Riviera on the Magical World of Heroes

The Magic Door of Rome

Chiron the Centaur

Cagliostro and the Arcana Arcanorum

Giambattista Vico and the Restoration of Ancient Italic Wisdom

Domenico Bocchini, Giustiniano Lebano, and the Neapolitan Mysterio

Sophic School

Giuliano Kremmerz and the Fraternity of Myriam

Julius Evola and the UR Group

Ekatlos and the Great ORMA

Viennese Circle of Kronos

Marco Daffi and the Rite of Andromeda

Giammaria and the Body of Peers

Commentary on the Golden Verses of Pythagoras

Recapitulation of Orphic and Bacchic Initiation