Theurgy And The Soul
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Theurgy And The Soul
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Author : Gregory Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Release Date : 1995
Theurgy And The Soul written by Gregory Shaw and has been published by Penn State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Iamblichus was once considered one of the great philosophers. The Emperor Julian followed Iamblichus's teachings to guide the restoration of traditional pagan cults in his campaign against Christianity. Although Julian was unsuccessful, Iamblichus's ideas persisted well into the Middle Ages and beyond. His vision of a hierarchical cosmos united by divine ritual became the dominant worldview for the entire medieval world. Even Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that he expected a reading of Iamblichus to cause a "revival in the churches". But modern scholars have dismissed him, seeing theurgy as ritual magic or "manipulation of the gods". Shaw, however, shows that theurgy was a subtle and intellectually sophisticated attempt to apply Platonic and Pythagorean teachings to the full expression of human existence in the material world.
Theurgy And The Soul Theurgy Put Into Practice Into Daily Life
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Author : Tim Poteat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-12
Theurgy And The Soul Theurgy Put Into Practice Into Daily Life written by Tim Poteat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-12 with categories.
Until recently, Neoplatonic theurgy has been defined by scholars as an attempt to manipulate the gods through ritual, and its influence in late antique Platonic circles has been interpreted as evidence for the decline of Greek rationality caused in large part by the teachings of the fourth-century Syrian Platonist, Iamblichus. Although scholarly research on theurgy and Iamblichus has now corrected these misunderstandings, they have left their mark on related areas of research: a notable example is the role of theurgy in the Christian liturgy of Dionysius the Areopagite. This book contains the core ideologies and practices of Theurgy, which evolved through more than 1000 years of Platonic philosophy and cultural transformations. It also guides the reader through the contemplative and theurgical practices used by the Neoplatonists to create effective spiritual transformation in the practitioner.
Theurgy The Language Of The Embodied Soul
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Author : Gregory James Waudby Shaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Theurgy The Language Of The Embodied Soul written by Gregory James Waudby Shaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Platonists categories.
Hellenic Tantra
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Author : Gregory Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Angelico Press
Release Date : 2024-02-13
Hellenic Tantra written by Gregory Shaw and has been published by Angelico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-13 with Philosophy categories.
Hellenic Tantra argues that scholarship on later Platonism has been misled by a dualist worldview. The theurgic Platonists in the school of Iamblichus (4th century CE) did not ascend out of their bodies to be united with the gods—as is the common belief—but allowed the gods to descend into their bodies. By comparing embodied deification in theurgy to Tantric traditions of embodied deification, Gregory Shaw allows us to understand the power and charisma of the last Platonic teachers. Hellenic Tantra reveals a living Platonism that has been hidden from us.
Theurgy
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Author : Gregory Shaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Theurgy written by Gregory Shaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with categories.
Theurgy And Numbers
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Author : Frederick J. Veldman
language : en
Publisher: Waning Moon Publications, LLC
Release Date : 2010-03-15
Theurgy And Numbers written by Frederick J. Veldman and has been published by Waning Moon Publications, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-15 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
''As a writer I thought that magical arts were language driven. I mean, we call them 'spells.' We have 'Words of Power, ' mantras, chants, and invocations. But with mathematics we have something else entirely. If I write down I saw three bluebonnets blooming today, you know exactly how many (even if you don't have the pleasure of knowing that it is the state flower of Texas). In fact, you can know the number even if you do not know English. In fact, you can know the number even if every single human perishes and you are some visiting alien from Tau Ceti. This would be true as your ability to grasp the Fundamental Theorem of the Calculus or the quadratic formula or )amusingly enough) Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems. Mathematics is where the mind can grasp the stuff of the Cosmos. We need only think of the terrible flash seen on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, or the beauties of the Mandelbrot set, or watch children play at cutting a Moebius, to understand that math is at he secret heat of the physical world. And that math is the key to 'wonderworking'.'' -- Don We
Theurgy The Language Of The Embodied Soul
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Author : Gregory Shaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Theurgy The Language Of The Embodied Soul written by Gregory Shaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.
Theurgy Theory And Practice
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Author : P. D. Newman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-12-05
Theurgy Theory And Practice written by P. D. Newman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-05 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Connects the magical practice of theurgy to the time of Homer • Explores the many theurgic themes and events in the Odyssey and the Iliad • Analyzes the writings of Neoplatonists Porphyry and Proclus, showing how both describe the technical ritual praxis of theurgy in Homeric terms • Examines the methods of telestikē, a form of theurgic statue animation and technique to divinize the soul, and how theurgy is akin to shamanic soul flight First defined by the second century Chaldean Oracles, theurgy is an ancient magic practice whereby practitioners divinized the soul and achieved mystical union with a deity, the Demiurge, or the One. In this detailed study, P. D. Newman pushes the roots of theurgy all the way back before the time of Homer. He shows how the Chaldean Oracles were not only written in Homeric Greek but also in dactylic hexameter, the same meter as the epics of Homer. Linking the Greek shamanic practices of the late Archaic period with the theurgic rites of late antiquity, the author explains how both anabasis, soul ascent, and katabasis, soul descent, can be considered varieties of shamanic soul flight and how these practices existed in ancient Greek culture prior to the influx of shamanic influence from Thrace and the Hyperborean North. The author explores the many theurgic themes and symbolic events in the Odyssey and the Iliad, including the famous journey of Odysseus to Hades and the incident of the funeral pyre of Patroclus. He presents a close analysis of On the Cave of the Nymphs, Porphyry’s commentary on Homer’s Odyssey, as well as a detailed look at Proclus’s symbolic reading of Homer’s Iliad, showing how both of these Neoplatonists describe the philosophical theory and the technical ritual praxis of theurgy. Using the Chaldean Oracles as a case study, Newman examines in detail the methods of telestikē, a form of theurgic statue animation, linking this practice to ancient Egyptian and Greek traditions as well as theurgic techniques to divinize the soul. Revealing how the theurgic arts are far older than the second century, Newman’s study not only examines the philosophical theory of theurgy but also the actual ritual practices of the theurgists, as described in their own words.
Theurgy In Late Antiquity
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Author : Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler
language : en
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Release Date : 2013-05-15
Theurgy In Late Antiquity written by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler and has been published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-15 with Religion categories.
Theurgy is commonly taken to denote a complex of rites which are based on the so-called Chaldean Oracles, a collection of oracles in hexameters, which were probably composed during the late 2nd century AD. These rituals are mostly known through Neoplatonic sources, who engage in a passionate debate about their relevance to the salvation of the soul and thus to the philosopher's ultimate goal. Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler examines the development of the discourse on theurgy, attempting to reconstruct what was understood as theurgic ritual in the late antique sources. Withstanding the temptation to impose a unity on the disparate sources which span several centuries, she thus goes beyond the picture of a coherent, extra-philosophical tradition drawn by the Neoplatonists to sketch the variations in the rituals subsumed under 'theurgy' and their function, and shows how every author constructs his own 'theurgy'. This perspective leads to consider theurgy as an example of an 'artificial' ritual tradition, composed from already existing elements to create something claimed as sui generis. Theurgy offers the great opportunity to look at such a tradition from its beginning up to its end and to analyse the mechanisms of inventing and reinventing such a ritual tradition in process.
Iamblichus De Anima
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Author : John Finamore
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2002-09-01
Iamblichus De Anima written by John Finamore and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-01 with Philosophy categories.
Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, brought a new religiosity to Neoplatonism. His theory of the soul is at the heart of his philosophical system. For Iamblichus, the human soul is so far inferior to the divine that its salvation depends not on philosophy alone (as it did for Plotinus) but on the aid of the gods and other divinities. This edition of the fragments of Iamblichus' major work on the soul, De Anima, is accompanied by the first English translation of the work and a commentary which explains the philosophical background and Iamblichus' doctrine of the soul. Included too are excerpts from the Pseudo-Simplicius and Priscianus (also translated with commentary) that shed further light on Iamblichus' treatise.
