Fondazione Bernardino del Boca

Introducing Bernardino del Boca for the first time is not easy due to the eclectic nature of his character. Bernardino del Boca was an Italian Theosophist, anthropologist, artist and essay writer born in Crodo on August 9, 1919. As a young student he began a lively correspondence with several Spiritualists of his time such as Jiddu Krishnamurti, Maurice Maeterlinck, George S. Arundale and Fabrizio Ruspoli, Duke of Salaparuta. This correspondence produced a remarkable amount of letters leading to life-long relationships, which helped the artist establish new links with the best-known contemporary figures of the International artistic and cultural scenes. He graduated with honours from the Academy of Brera in Milan in 1939 and a few months before his diploma, between January 22 and February 12, he set up his first personal exhibition at the Casa della G.I.L. in Borgomanero, exhibiting fifty of his most important works. He worked as a teacher in secondary schools, interrupting his teaching career to fulfil military service until 1946, when he left to Siam. After 1951 he returned from Singapore, where he had spent some years as Honorary Consul of Italy. Then he started studying anthropology and palaeontology at Geneva, and also started teaching again. He was an educator working to transmit the principles of freedom and harmony of thought - two concepts which accompanied him throughout his entire life, and which he transmitted to his followers. After his long stay in the East, he embraced the objective thinking approach, a method learned from the monks of the Mahayana Buddhism school, enabling him to use his ethereal strength to transform reality and go beyond the rational mind connected with sensory experiences - thus allowing him to help, within the limits of karma, those who, for their own will or desire, are predisposed to the spiritual awakening. Art, a means through which he was able to express the supernatural beauty of both humanity and nature, also became a way to create and capture the Images of future shapes by painting them as the archetypes of ethereal reality. The artist defined this unique 'spiritual method', the result of ancient Buddhist teachings and which differs from the negative para-mediumistic or autosuggestive forces, as 'psycho-thematic' or 'thematic of the soul'. Let us also mention his remarkable activity as an artist, publicist and a writer in both the literary and the scientific fields. His extraordinary holistic work made him a forerunner of the International movement of thought which will be defined as the 'New Age' movement a few decades later and that can be seen as a re-Interpretation of Theosophy. His vast literary production, which was supported in 1971 by the Basant-Arunale Theosophical Group of Novara, founded and chaired by prof. Del Boca himself, gave birth to the journal 'L'Etˆ dell'Acquario' with the declared aim to become a means through which its authors could break existing mental schemes and help people understand the principles of Theosophy. His revolutionary theosophical-Aquarian ideas, expressed not only through his works but also through his constant social engagement also set the basis for the creation of a Utopian Community, known as the 'Villaggio Verde' (or Green Village) at Cavallirio, near Novara. The village was founded on the principles of freedom, tolerance and love: "Live to be, not to have" was his motto. From the fifties and many decades later, he was also the official visitor of the Prison of San Vittore and the Hall of Justice in Milan, where he offered his support to prisoners without assistance. His work as a civil service Theosophist was also remarkable; he assisted persons in need who turned to him for support even during his final days. He delivered a message of freedom and love also through his intense activity as a distinguished lecturer, writer and teacher. He was a man of good nature, who was against any kind of moralizing and preaching, always ready to bring humanity and a sense of humour even in the most dramatic situations. He was a sage and a clairvoyant. His Buddhist studies, which began while in Indonesia at the age of twenty-seven, paved the way to the understanding of the secrets of nature and existence, which continued throughout his entire life. He received most of the secrete powers preserved by the Tibetans monks because he was able to follow the path of his heart. His soul left the physical body on December 9, 2001, leaving the tangible signs of his theosophical seeds of a new age - the Age of Aquarius.




	GENERAL BIOGRAPHY

	Introducing Bernardino del Boca for the first time is not easy due to the eclectic nature of his character. Bernardino del Boca was an Italian Theosophist, anthropologist, artist and essay writer born in Crodo on August 9, 1919. As a young student he began a lively correspondence with several Spiritualists of his time such as Jiddu Krishnamurti, Maurice Maeterlinck, George S. Arundale and Fabrizio Ruspoli, Duke of Salaparuta. This correspondence produced a remarkable amount of letters leading to life-long relationships, which helped the artist establish new links with the best-known contemporary figures of the International artistic and cultural scenes. He graduated with honours from the Academy of Brera in Milan in 1939 and a few months before his diploma, between January 22 and February 12, he set up his first personal exhibition at the Casa della G.I.L. in Borgomanero, exhibiting fifty of his most important works. He worked as a teacher in secondary schools, interrupting his teaching career to fulfil military service until 1946, when he left to Siam. After 1951 he returned from Singapore, where he had spent some years as Honorary Consul of Italy. Then he started studying anthropology and palaeontology at Geneva, and also started teaching again. He was an educator working to transmit the principles of freedom and harmony of thought - two concepts which accompanied him throughout his entire life, and which he transmitted to his followers. After his long stay in the East, he embraced the objective thinking approach, a method learned from the monks of the Mahayana Buddhism school, enabling him to use his ethereal strength to transform reality and go beyond the rational mind connected with sensory experiences - thus allowing him to help, within the limits of karma, those who, for their own will or desire, are predisposed to the spiritual awakening. Art, a means through which he was able to express the supernatural beauty of both humanity and nature, also became a way to create and capture the Images of future shapes by painting them as the archetypes of ethereal reality. The artist defined this unique 'spiritual method', the result of ancient Buddhist teachings and which differs from the negative para-mediumistic or autosuggestive forces, as 'psycho-thematic' or 'thematic of the soul'. Let us also mention his remarkable activity as an artist, publicist and a writer in both the literary and the scientific fields. His extraordinary holistic work made him a forerunner of the International movement of thought which will be defined as the 'New Age' movement a few decades later and that can be seen as a re-Interpretation of Theosophy. His vast literary production, which was supported in 1971 by the Basant-Arunale Theosophical Group of Novara, founded and chaired by prof. Del Boca himself, gave birth to the journal 'L'Etˆ dell'Acquario' with the declared aim to become a means through which its authors could break existing mental schemes and help people understand the principles of Theosophy. His revolutionary theosophical-Aquarian ideas, expressed not only through his works but also through his constant social engagement also set the basis for the creation of a Utopian Community, known as the 'Villaggio Verde' (or Green Village) at Cavallirio, near Novara. The village was founded on the principles of freedom, tolerance and love: "Live to be, not to have" was his motto. From the fifties and many decades later, he was also the official visitor of the Prison of San Vittore and the Hall of Justice in Milan, where he offered his support to prisoners without assistance. His work as a civil service Theosophist was also remarkable; he assisted persons in need who turned to him for support even during his final days. He delivered a message of freedom and love also through his intense activity as a distinguished lecturer, writer and teacher. He was a man of good nature, who was against any kind of moralizing and preaching, always ready to bring humanity and a sense of humour even in the most dramatic situations. He was a sage and a clairvoyant. His Buddhist studies, which began while in Indonesia at the age of twenty-seven, paved the way to the understanding of the secrets of nature and existence, which continued throughout his entire life. He received most of the secrete powers preserved by the Tibetans monks because he was able to follow the path of his heart. His soul left the physical body on December 9, 2001, leaving the tangible signs of his theosophical seeds of a new age - the Age of Aquarius.