The Secret Tradition of the Invisible Sun, preserved for a thousand years in the Mysteries and astrology, survived even during the Middle Ages, connecting the heliocentrism of the Hermetic Texts read by Copernicus and Galileo with the Celestial Dragon of Mithraism, the Intellectual Sun of Neoplatonism, the Central Fire of the Pythagoreans, and the Homeric Tartarus.

Now it is clear why the Greek classical statues 'never smiled', inspired by the messages of ancient tragedy.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]