With a history going back millennia, and which certainly predates the 11th century Collegiate Church facing it, Casa Lemmi is a veritable treasure house both inside and out of esoteric features including some from the Knights Templars. These make for a holiday following the motto “Inside out; outside in” , which is a synthesis of “the mysteries” hidden in Casa Lemmi.
The mysteries are:
The rediscovery of the magic door between Casa Lemmi and the Collegiate Church
The celestial staircase of Casa Lemmi
The rediscovery of the magic door between Casa Lemmi and the Collegiate Church
Every footstep in new place brings new thoughts to mind; new ways of seeing things. None of us, not even the least suggestive, are immune from the fascination of the unknown. However finding oneself at Casa Lemmi presents one with something really different both as an external and as a personal experience. This may well occur if you give yourself up to the magic of the palatial rooms, and after perhaps spending the day viewing panoramas and paintings and palaces, you sink into a comfortable armchair and begin to sit and reflect on all these experiences. It may make you reflect on how this magical place might contribute to interior growth and spiritual well-being. This outcome is not guaranteed; we are all of course different. BUT WHY IS IT THAT OUR GUESTS TEND TO RETURN EVER MORE FREQUENTLY? WHY DOES EACH GUEST CHOOSE THE ROOM TO WHICH HE OR SHE FEELS THE GREATEST AFFINITY?
Here perhaps is an initial explanation. Casa Lemmi and the Collegiate Church are united not only by lifeless and invisible links but also by a mysterious rapport that passes from a pagan god – or half–god – secretly worshipped by the Knights Templars who had discovered the existence of the spirit of King Solomon. This is represented by a statue of a monstrous hunchback 60 cm high on a column of a mullioned window on the wall of the Collegiate Church parallel with the façade of Casa Lemmi. What then is the significance of this disquieting gargoyle sarcastically eyeing passers-by. The recent restoration work presents one possible explanation. At Casa Lemmi a room has been restored containing three “eyes of god”, ancient Templar insignia, and at the same height as the statue of the “hunchback”, as if to indicate a passage. Now, since the ancient cathedrals are also “esoteric manuals”, which speak to researchers of themselves and function as veritable Stargates towards the energy which is found first in the Templars and outside in the Universe, the problem is to find a line between “the eye of god” and a “mysterious point” to be found once again on the same façade so as thus to enter spiritually into this energy. Is it a perfect triangle, which added to the nine circles of the portal, gives life to truth and carrying a mystical charge and energy opens a spiritual way to those who manage to pass through the threshold? But how? This is the mystery entrusted to each one of us.
The celestial staircase of Casa Lemmi
The second Casa Lemmi mystery is a staircase in the very ancient travertine under a cupola, cut in the middle. Also of ancient origin there are the external walls which constitute a means of hiding the cupola from outsiders. What is the function of this cupola which predates building work in the Gothic style, to which that type of cupola was unknown? Given that Casa Lemmi is built on a site that was first Etruscan and then Roman, and which from antiquity has been a pagan religious site; indeed to such an extent that the Collegiate Church was for this reason built over it, a further significant piece of evidence also gives pause for thought. Within living memory, at every flight of the “celestial staircase”, there was a pommel in ironwork of a rose bud, itself an esoteric Templar - and latterly Masonic - symbol. This is another enigma which is in all probability connected with the Magic Door. So notwithstanding the persecution of the Templars, they continue to live among us in their symbols and also in those who know how to read and interpret, conserve and respect, them.
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