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This translation from the Greek by Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) was first published in 1821. Taylor's early writings and translations into English influenced such romantic poets as Blake, Coleridge and Keats. Iamblichus is thought to have been born in Syria in the middle of the third century and is regarded as one of the great Neoplatonist philosophers. He founded a school in which he taught 'white magic' or 'theurgy'; he sought to uncover the invisible side of nature and to give Man the means to effect the union of the divine spark with its parent-flame within him. In this work, divided into ten sections, he gives a complete canon of pagan religious thought and belief and explains their background. The Neoplatonist Porphyry's Letter to Anebo, in which he criticises religious rituals and practices, and Iamblichus' response to this criticism, and defence of these traditions, are included.… (más)
For any work with Theurgy, divination, high magic, a structure is required. Iamblichus furnishes the world with a structure that is foundational and well-grounded in practices of antiquity. What I have won as an inquirer through years of toiled and suffered observations of the aetheric worlds he masterfully elucidates in a single volume. I often stood corrected, sometimes a bit proud that I could expand on some of high thoughts of his. One can recognize a master's mind at work in an often complex but evident manner in the greater context of theory and praxis that the son of Chalcis engaged. This book is to be read with Intellect, patience and an open heart, all waves and threads inter-sect with each other in a panharmonic One. I will definitely return to it after some time to have a fresh look at it, and after tweaking my own performance in arrays of life and the Divine. If the golden chain of Plato and neo-platonists was ever-broken, be assured that if you open your souls in receptiveness to these teachings, the golden thread is suspended above the visible heavens, and past masters and mistresses no longer walking amongst us on Earth will gladly teach us in proportion and accordance to our preparation. I finished this book right after my loved one recommended Agnes Obel's "Familiar" music to me. In this atmosphere, I would like to convey this review. ( )
For any work with Theurgy, divination, high magic, a structure is required. Iamblichus furnishes the world with a structure that is foundational and well-grounded in practices of antiquity. What I have won as an inquirer through years of toiled and suffered observations of the aetheric worlds he masterfully elucidates in a single volume. I often stood corrected, sometimes a bit proud that I could expand on some of high thoughts of his. One can recognize a master's mind at work in an often complex but evident manner in the greater context of theory and praxis that the son of Chalcis engaged. This book is to be read with Intellect, patience and an open heart, all waves and threads inter-sect with each other in a panharmonic One. I will definitely return to it after some time to have a fresh look at it, and after tweaking my own performance in arrays of life and the Divine. If the golden chain of Plato and neo-platonists was ever-broken, be assured that if you open your souls in receptiveness to these teachings, the golden thread is suspended above the visible heavens, and past masters and mistresses no longer walking amongst us on Earth will gladly teach us in proportion and accordance to our preparation. I finished this book right after my loved one recommended Agnes Obel's "Familiar" music to me. In this atmosphere, I would like to convey this review. ( )
More of a philosophical work than a practical one, De Mysteriis is a difficult read which offers valuable glimpses to the neoplatonical pagan worldview of late antiquity. It is interesting that, despite his distaste for rationality (something that drew me in the first place), Iamblichus' worldview and reasoning is proven to be pretty much based on rational innards - a thing that I guess was more or less the norm for the Roman-Greek world since the Classical times. The book obviously combines nicely with the Greek Magical Papyri, its practical (and much more interesting I would say) reflection. ( )
For any work with Theurgy, divination, high magic, a structure is required. Iamblichus furnishes the world with a structure that is foundational and well-grounded in practices of antiquity. What I have won as an inquirer through years of toiled and suffered observations of the aetheric worlds he masterfully elucidates in a single volume. I often stood corrected, sometimes a bit proud that I could expand on some of high thoughts of his. One can recognize a master's mind at work in an often complex but evident manner in the greater context of theory and praxis that the son of Chalcis engaged. This book is to be read with Intellect, patience and an open heart, all waves and threads inter-sect with each other in a panharmonic One. I will definitely return to it after some time to have a fresh look at it, and after tweaking my own performance in arrays of life and the Divine. If the golden chain of Plato and neo-platonists was ever-broken, be assured that if you open your souls in receptiveness to these teachings, the golden thread is suspended above the visible heavens, and past masters and mistresses no longer walking amongst us on Earth will gladly teach us in proportion and accordance to our preparation. I finished this book right after my loved one recommended Agnes Obel's "Familiar" music to me. In this atmosphere, I would like to convey this review. ( )
For any work with Theurgy, divination, high magic, a structure is required. Iamblichus furnishes the world with a structure that is foundational and well-grounded in practices of antiquity. What I have won as an inquirer through years of toiled and suffered observations of the aetheric worlds he masterfully elucidates in a single volume. I often stood corrected, sometimes a bit proud that I could expand on some of high thoughts of his. One can recognize a master's mind at work in an often complex but evident manner in the greater context of theory and praxis that the son of Chalcis engaged. This book is to be read with Intellect, patience and an open heart, all waves and threads inter-sect with each other in a panharmonic One. I will definitely return to it after some time to have a fresh look at it, and after tweaking my own performance in arrays of life and the Divine. If the golden chain of Plato and neo-platonists was ever-broken, be assured that if you open your souls in receptiveness to these teachings, the golden thread is suspended above the visible heavens, and past masters and mistresses no longer walking amongst us on Earth will gladly teach us in proportion and accordance to our preparation. I finished this book right after my loved one recommended Agnes Obel's "Familiar" music to me. In this atmosphere, I would like to convey this review. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
(Porphyry to the prophet Anebo greeting)
I commence my friendship towards you from the Gods and good daemons, and from those philosophic disquisitions, which have an affinity to those powers.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
It remains therefore, at the end of this discussion, that I should beseech the Gods to afford me an immutable guard of true conceptions , to insert in me truth eternally, and to supply me abundantly with the participation of more perfect conceptions of the Gods, in which the most blessed end of our good is posited, and the confirmation of our concordant friendship with each other.
This translation from the Greek by Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) was first published in 1821. Taylor's early writings and translations into English influenced such romantic poets as Blake, Coleridge and Keats. Iamblichus is thought to have been born in Syria in the middle of the third century and is regarded as one of the great Neoplatonist philosophers. He founded a school in which he taught 'white magic' or 'theurgy'; he sought to uncover the invisible side of nature and to give Man the means to effect the union of the divine spark with its parent-flame within him. In this work, divided into ten sections, he gives a complete canon of pagan religious thought and belief and explains their background. The Neoplatonist Porphyry's Letter to Anebo, in which he criticises religious rituals and practices, and Iamblichus' response to this criticism, and defence of these traditions, are included.
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