1. Biography

2. Claims

3. Selected works (original Spanish editions)

4. References

5. External links

Jorge Ángel Livraga Rizzi (September 3, 1930 – October 7, 1991) was an Argentinian poet, novelist,^[1][2][3] self-taught philosopher, essayist, educator and lecturer of Italian heritage best known for having founded and directed New Acropolis, an international philosophical educational and cultural organisation.

His works have been translated into several languages, titles in English include the novels The Alchemist and Ankor, the Last Prince of Atlantis, as well as The Spirits of Nature and Thebes, two studies on esotericism.

He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and died in Madrid, Spain.^[4]

Livraga was convicted for illegal arm possession in 1988 by Madrid's Provincial Court.^[5]

Biography

His mother, Victoria Rizzi, and his father, Ángel Livraga, an industrial engineer, were of Italian origin whose families had emigrated to Argentina in the late 19th century; (Livraga himself would later gain Italian citizenship). Livraga's father died when he was 15, and this led to a spiritual crisis, where, via his English teacher, he eventually came into contact with the Argentine Theosophical Society in the early fifties.^[6] With his partner Ada Albrecht, he became recognized in theosophical circles as a charismatic teacher and lecturer.{{quotation needed|date=January 2018}} He was a member of the Theosophical Society from 1950 to 1962.^[7] He entered the history and history of art faculty of Buenos Aires university and later the Medical Faculty.{{quotation needed|date=January 2018}}

At some point, he founded the magazine Estudios Teosóficos with Ada Albrecht, and founded New Acropolis, an association intended to promote Philosophy, along the lines of the classical Schools of Philosophy, such as Plato’s Academy. Livraga began to expand New Acropolis to other Latin American countries: Uruguay, Chile (in 1965),^[8] Perú, Brasil and Bolivia.^[6] Livraga's activities during this period consisted in writing the extensive course manuals which extends to seven cycles (the manuals cover such topics as psychology, eastern and western wisdom, theological symbolism, oratory, history of philosophy, comparative religions, philosophy of science, metaphysics and esthetics, human evolution, cosmic evolution, astrology, and others),^[9] as well teaching classes and giving public lectures.

In 1972, Livraga moved to Spain, to establish New Acropolis centers in Europe. At that time, two of his Argentinian students, Delia Steinberg Guzman and Fernand Schwarz, opened centers in Spain and in France, respectively. In 1981, Albrecht left New Acropolis to form her own organisation, Hastinapura.^[10] New Acropolis has continued to expand and is present in over fifty countries across Europe, America and Asia.^[11]

Livraga's role as international coordinator of New Acropolis led him to travel extensively, giving various lectures, workshops and meetings. He also maintained a busy writing schedule, contributing at least one article to Spain's New Acropolis magazine per month (for the first 200 issues, approximately) as well as continuing to write special instructional manuals. He also had an interest in archeology, regularly organizing private expeditions and maintained a collection housed in a private museum, the Rodrigo Caro Museum.^[10] After his death, his natal home in Buenos Aires was converted into a museum in his name.^[12]

Claims

His official New Acropolis biography {{cn|date=February 2019}} claims that he was an academic member of the Esoteric grupo known as the International Philo-Byzantine Academy and University (IPHBAU) that according to the James Randi Foundation gives doctorates in Divinity,^[13] and the New Acropolis-related publishing house International Burckhardt Academy in Italy.^[14] It also claims that he was a knight of the Real Orden de San Ildefonso y San Atilano, and a recipient of the silver cross from the Société Académique Arts Sciences Lettres (France), nevertheless apart from his New Acropolis biography no second hand source confirms such claims.^[15][16] His official biography use to list him as archeologist and doctor in philosophy from the inexistent Aztec Academy of Arts, but once such Academy was proven to be fictional the claim was retired..^[14]

His official biography often claims that he won the Argentine National Poetry Prize with his book Lotuses, however no source of such claim exists outside of New Acropolis and he's not listed as such in any source of the Argentinean government.^[17]

Selected works (original Spanish editions)

• Ankor, El Discipulo - (A novel about spiritual initiation in Atlantis)- 1972 - Cunillera. Nuevas Ciencias.
• El Alqimista - (a novel about alchemy) 1974 - {{ISBN|84-230-0041-9}} - {{ISBN|978-84-230-0041-8}} - Editorial Cunillera
• Manual de primer curso: [ética, socio-política, filosofía de la historia]- Madrid : Nueva Acrópolis, D.L. 1978. {{ISBN|84-300-0173-5}}
• Moassy El Perro - (a novel about society)- 1980 - Nueva Acrópolis
• Cartas a Delia y Fernando - (philosophical work) Madrid : Nueva Acròpolis, 1981. {{ISBN|84-300-4075-7}}
• Pensamientos - (a collection of quotations)- 1982 -Nueva Acrópolis - {{ISBN|84-85982-02-9}}
• Ideario - vols. I, II & III - (A compilation of magazine articles)
• Los espíritus elementales de la naturaleza (The elemental spirits of nature, an esoteric study) - Madrid : Nueva Acrópolis, D.L. 1985. {{ISBN|84-85982-19-3}}
• Tebas - (Thebes, a study of Egypt) Valencia : Nueva Acrópolis, D.L. 1986. {{ISBN|84-85982-26-6}}
• Jorge Ángel Livraga. El teatro Mistérico en Grecia I. La Tragedia. (A study of ancient Greek theater) Ed. NA -1987 -Editorial Nueva Acrópolis - {{ISBN|84-85982-28-2}}
• Magia, Religion y Ciencia para el tercer Milenio I, II,III & IV- (a collection of lecture transcripts) 1995 - Nueva Acropolis, A.C.-{{ISBN|84-85982-61-4}}

References

External links

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060127202304/http://www.acropolis.org/about/jal.aspx?lang=eng Livraga's biography on acropolis.org]

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