Within the Italian and Neapolitan esoteric tradition, the Arcana Arcanorum are not presented as a theatrical system of secret degrees, but as the inner core of a living Hermetic transmission. At the center of this current stands Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero, who is consistently regarded not as a symbolic figurehead, but as the true architect and father of the Arcana Arcanorum. Raimondo di Sangro did not invent the Arcana in the sense of creating something entirely