Around 276 B.C. a poet from Cilicia had the great honor of coming into the favor of Macedonia&rsquo;s King Antigonus II Gonatas, who firmly wanted him at his court. His name was Aratus (?&rho;&alpha;&tau;&omicron;&sigmaf;), and he is also known as Aratus of Soli. Described as a &laquo;cosmic philosopher and Homeric poet&raquo;, Aratus was born in Tarsos around 315 B.C. and completed his studies in Athens, where he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries and was a student of the Stoic philosopher Perseus of Cytium. He is mostly remembered today for a didactic poem entitled <i>Phain&ograve;mena</i>, made of a total of 1154 verses and divided into two parts: the first one, the actual <i>Phain&ograve;mena</i>, made of 732 verses, and the second one entitled <i>Dioseme&icirc;a</i> (whose meaning is &ldquo;Predictions&rdquo; or, better, &ldquo;Signs from Heaven&rdquo;). But Aratus&rsquo; <i>Phain&ograve;mena</i> was nothing more than the transposition into poetic verses of an astronomical treatise, now lost, by the great astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus, who lived almost two centuries before Aratus. A treatise that hid ancestral knowledges transmitted by secret initiatory schools, knowledges dating back to the ancient Minoan civilization.<br />This new essay by the historian Nicola Bizzi is a journey into the secrets and mysteries of an ancient forgotten science, which over the centuries has become the exclusive heritage of secret initiatory orders.