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Exploring the forgotten and rejected story of Western thought
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One Empire, Many Names: Reading “Byzantium” with Anthony Kaldellis
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Contested Esotericisms at the End of Antiquity: Simplicius, Philoponus, and Olympiodorus
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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The Last Platonists? Philosophic Teaching, Christianity, and Polytheism in Late-Antique Alexandria
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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All from Nothing: Sara Rappe on Damascius
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Hagia Sophia and the Problem of ‘Esoteric Architecture’
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Kevin van Bladel on the Ṣābians of Ḥarrān and the Fate of the Athenian Academy
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Edward Watts on the Age of Justinian and the Closing of the Athenian Academy
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Danielle Layne on Proclus’ Religious Life and Thought
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May 29, 2024 |
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Graeme Miles on Proclus the Commentator
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May 22, 2024 |
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The Esoteric Proclus, Part II: Esoteric Exegesis and the Occult Ontology of Language
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May 14, 2024 |
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The Esoteric Proclus, Part I: The Life and Thought of an Esoteric Sage
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Dylan Burns on Proclus the Successor
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Hierocles of Alexandria and the Pythagorean Golden Verses
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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The Great God Pan Lives: Introducing the Athenian Academy
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Ↄ. Martiana on Martianus Capella and the Marriage of Philology and Mercury
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Macrobius and the Commentary on Scipio’s Dream
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Augustine of Hippo: Saint of the Exoteric
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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The Manichæan Catholic: Augustine of Hippo
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Stephen A. Cooper on Marius Victorinus and Latinate Christian Platonism
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Gretchen Reydams-Schils on Calcidius and the Timæus
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Plato Latinus
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Jay Bregman on Synesius of Cyrene
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Noble Lies and Philosophic Silence: Hypatia, Synesius, and the New Esotericism in the Fourth Century
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Hypatia of Alexandria: The Life and Death of a Philosopher and her City
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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‘And When Rome Falls, Falls the World’: The Fall of Rome and Western Esotericism
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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‘Visibly a Goddess’: Heidi Marx on Sosipatra of Pergamum
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Frederico Fidler on Sallustius’ On the Gods and the World
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Strategies of the Esoteric in the Hellenism of the Emperor Julian: Exclusion and Pluralism in a Late-Antique Polytheism
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part II: The Emperor’s Religio-Philosophic Project
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May 23, 2023 |
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Jeremy Swist on the Emperor Julian, Part I: the Political Background and Political Project of the Emperor
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May 23, 2023 |
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Joel Kalvesmaki on Evagrius’ Kephalaia Gnōstika: Philosophy, Scripture, and Apophatic Mysticism
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May 16, 2023 |
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Joel Kalvesmaki on Evagrius of Pontus, the ‘Gnostic Trilogy’, and the Origenist Controversy
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May 09, 2023 |
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Theology, Politics, and Radiant Darkness: Michæl Motia on Gregory of Nyssa
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Father Sergey Trostyanskiy on the Cappadocian Fathers, Part II
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Father Sergey Trostyanskiy on the Cappadocian Fathers, Part I
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Claire Hall on Firmicus Maternus
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Kocku von Stuckrad on Monotheist Astrologies in (Late) Antiquity
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Metals, Temples, and Living Statues: Shannon Grimes on Zosimus’ Egyptian Context
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Bink Hallum on the Extended Zosimus
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Matteo Martelli Introduces Zosimus of Panopolis
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Recognising the Real in the Forgery: The Pseudo-Clementine Literature
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Charles Häberl on the Mandæans
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Paul Pasquesi on Christian Asceticism in the Late-Antique Syriac World
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Korshi Dosoo on Early Christian Magic
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Prolegomena to Christian Magic
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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The Testament of Solomon and the Solomonic Tradition, Part II
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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The Testament of Solomon and the Solomonic Tradition, Part I
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Exploring the Sefer ha-Razim
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Curses! Sarah Veale on Roman ‘Curse-Tablets’
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Daniel James Waller on the Jewish Incantation-Bowls
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Gideon Bohak on Late-Antique Jewish Magic
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Thinking through Monotheism, Henotheism, Polytheism, and Dualism in Late Antiquity
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity, Part II: The Rise of Christianity and the Invention and Eclipse of ‘Paganism’
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity, Part I: Geopolitics, Empire, and Rabbinic Judaism
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Run the Numbers: The Theology of Arithmetic
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Brian Alt on Sacred Materials, Divine Names, and Subtle Physiology in Iamblichean Theurgy
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May 11, 2022 |
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Gregory Shaw on the Phenomenology of Iamblichean Theurgy
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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John Finamore on Iamblichean Theurgy in Theory and Practice
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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The Great Theurgy Debate: Porphyry’s Letter to Anebo, Iamblichus’ Response, and the Question(s) of Ritual
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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The Esoteric Iamblichus
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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The ‘Greater Kinds’, Souls, and Kosmos: Iamblichus’ Philosophy, Part II
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Esoteric Hermeneutics, Divine Hierarchy, and the Ineffable: The Philosophy of Iamblichus, Part I
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Introducing Iamblichus of Chalcis
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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A Word to Conjure With: On ‘Theurgy’ in Late Antiquity and Beyond
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Astral Accretions, Fate, and the Resurrection-Body: Other Subtle Bodies of Antiquity
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Soul-Flight, Noetic Bodies, and Pneumatic Vehicles: Toward a History of the Platonist Subtle Body
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Methodologies for Studying the Subtle Body
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Nilüfer Akçay on Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Porphyry and the Barbarians: Ethnicity, Religious Practice, and Esoteric Interpretation
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Dorian Greenbaum on Porphyry and Astrology
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Porphyry’s Gods: The Metaphysics and Physics of Divinity
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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‘Poet, Philosopher, Hierophant’: Introducing Porphyry of Tyre
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Charles M. Stang on the Divine Double in Late Antiquity
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Jason BeDuhn on Mani and Manichæism
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Radcliffe G. Edmonds III on the ‘Mithrasliturgie’
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Mithras and the Stars: Astral Elements in the Cult of Mithras
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Mysteries of the Rock-Born God: The Roman Cult of Mithras
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Jean-Marc Narbonne on Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics
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May 04, 2021 |
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Dylan Burns on Sethian Gnosticism
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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The Esoteric Plotinus, Part II: Unsaying the Real
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Plotinus on Astrology with Marilynn Lawrence
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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The Esoteric Plotinus, Part I: Philosophic Silence and Esoteric Reading
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Plotinus the Magician? Ritual Practice and Power in Platonism
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Mateusz Stróżyński on Spiritual Practices in Plotinus
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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We are the One: Plotinus’ Participatory Metaphysics
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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‘The Philosopher of our Time’: Introducing Plotinus
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Matthew Neujahr on the Sibylline Oracles
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Christian Bull on the Way of Hermes in Antiquity
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Anna van den Kerchove on the Hermetic Way in Antiquity
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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M. David Litwa on Deification in the Hermetica
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Silent Encounters: The Esoteric in the Ancient Hermetica
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Other Hermetic Worlds: The Asclepius and Korê Kosmou
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Wouter Hanegraaff on the Poimandres
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Corpus Hermeticum I, the Poimandres
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Professor Christian Wildberg on Emending the Corpus Hermeticum
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Brian Copenhaver on the Hermetica
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Thrice-Greatest Hermes
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Total War: Polemical Esotericism in the Contra Celsum
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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The True Account: Celsus, Origen, and Ideological Esotericism in Late Antiquity
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Aron Reppmann Introduces Origen of Alexandria
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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From Word to Silence: The Rise of the Apophatic in Late Antiquity
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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The Third Century and (the Long) Late Antiquity
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Becoming Gods: Divinisation and Angelomorphic Transformation in Clement
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Henny Fiskå Hägg on Clement’s Apophatic Writing
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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Lifting the Veil: Esoteric Reading in Clement’s Stromateis
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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Mystagogic Patchwork: Esoteric Writing in Clement’s Stromateis
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May 30, 2020 |
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The Orthodox Gnostic: Introducing Clement of Alexandria
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May 01, 2020 |
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The Astrology of Vettius Valens
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Claudius Ptolemy and the Tetrabiblos
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Numerical Mysteries: Nichomachus of Gerasa, Arithmology, and Second-Century Neopythagoreanism
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Matteo Martelli on the Pseudo-Democritus
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Introducing Alchemy with Lawrence Principe
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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Other Gospels and Alien Gods: Marcion of Sinope
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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Geoffrey Smith on Valentinus and Valentinianism
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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I Got Soul, And I’m Super Bad: Basilides of Alexandria
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Warfaring Strangers: Prolegomena to Second-Century Christianity
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Michael Williams on the Trouble with ‘Gnosticism’
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Jan 01, 2020 |
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Alone with the Alone: Numenius’ Metaphysics
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Inter philosophos occultorum curiosior: Numenius of Apamea
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Korshi Dosoo on the Papyri Græcæ Magicæ and Western Esotericism
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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The Chaldæan Oracles and Theurgy
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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The Chaldæan Oracles
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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I’m Not Sorry: The Apology of Apuleius
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Nov 02, 2019 |
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Ineffable Initiations and Golden Asses: Apuleius of Madauros and the Metamorphoses
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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Hypochondria and Epiphany: The Strange Case of Ælius Aristides
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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Daniel Harris-McCoy on the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Gil Renberg on Incubation
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Plutarch’s Myths of Cosmic Ascent
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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An Erudite Esotericist: Introducing Plutarch of Chæronea
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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Astrology, Politics, and Platonism in the Early Empire: The Case of Thrasyllus
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Graeme Miles on Apollonius of Tyana
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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The Enigma of Early Christianity
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Jun 09, 2019 |
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Dylan Burns on the ‘Underworld of Platonism’
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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John Dillon on Middle Platonism
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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The Esoteric and the State in Ancient Rome, Part 2: The State and the Stars
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Apr 14, 2019 |
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The Esoteric and the State in Ancient Rome, Part 1: Late Republican Esotericism
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Introducing Rome
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Justin Rogers on Philo in Early Christianity
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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The Esoteric Philo
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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The First Western Esotericist: Philo of Alexandria
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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Naomi Janowitz on Jewish Magic and ‘The Jewish Magi’ in Antiquity
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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Frances Flannery on Jewish Dreams in Antiquity
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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Palaces of Heavenly Wisdom: The Hekhalot and Merkavah Traditions
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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Enoch, Apocalyptic, and Abrahamic Faith
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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Enoch and the Book of Watchers
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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John J. Collins on Apocalyptic
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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The Long Secret History of the Jews Part II: Second-Temple Judaism
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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Pythagoras Revived: An Anatomy of Neopythagoreanism
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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The Numbers Don’t Lie: Joel Kalvesmaki on ‘Pythagorean’ Number
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Oct 22, 2018 |
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After Pythagoras
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Sep 28, 2018 |
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Stoic Physics and Esoteric Metaphysics
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Sep 15, 2018 |
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Esoteric Hermeneutics in Stoicism
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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Christopher Gill on Stoicism
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Aug 24, 2018 |
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Chris Brennan on Hellenistic Astrology
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Aug 19, 2018 |
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Fate and Foreknowledge: Toward Hellenistic Astrology
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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Wheels Within Wheels: Toward Western Esoteric Cosmology
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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The Esoteric Aristotle, Part 2
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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The Esoteric Aristotle, Part I
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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Peter Adamson on Plato
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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Plato’s Parmenides and Metaphysics
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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Mystery and Immortality: Plato’s Phædo
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Jun 03, 2018 |
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Mystery and Initiation in Plato
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May 21, 2018 |
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Nowhere to Go But Up: Philosophic Ascent in Plato
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May 08, 2018 |
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Maya Alapin on Mathematical Structures in Plato’s Republic
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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Sun, Line, Cave: Plato’s Inner Republic
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Apr 08, 2018 |
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Introducing Plato’s Republic
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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Otherworlds, Inner Worlds, and Utopias
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Mar 18, 2018 |
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Christopher Gill on Plato’s Atlantis
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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Plato’s Timæus
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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The Birth of the Symbol: Peter Struck on Ancient Greek Esoteric Hermeneutics
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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The Esoteric Plato
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Feb 25, 2018 |
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Introducing the Father of Western Esotericism: Plato
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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Miguel Herrero de Jauregui on Ancient ‘Orphism’
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Feb 04, 2018 |
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Severed Heads and Cosmic Eggs: Orpheus and Esotericism
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Feb 04, 2018 |
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Elementary: Empedocles and the Secret History of the Elements
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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All for One, and One for All: Parmenides of Elea
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Jan 17, 2018 |
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Riddle Me This: Heraclitus of Ephesus
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Jan 05, 2018 |
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Don’t Spill the Beans: Pythagorean Silence
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Dec 27, 2017 |
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The Enigma of Pythagoreanism
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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The Enigma of Pythagoras
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Dec 10, 2017 |
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For the Love of Wisdom: The Birth of Philosophy
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Dec 02, 2017 |
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Methodologies for the Study of Mysticism
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Nov 23, 2017 |
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From Mystery to ‘Mysticism’
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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Richard Seaford on the Mysteries
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Nov 09, 2017 |
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The Long Secret History of Judaism, Part I
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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Prayer to the Gods of Night: The Near-Eastern Roots of Astrology
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Oct 25, 2017 |
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Esoteric Orientalism Part II: The Greeks are Always Children?
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Oct 18, 2017 |
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Esoteric Orientalism Part I: Ancient Barbarian Sages
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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We’re Together In Dreams: Dreaming and Western Esotericism
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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Magicians, Ghosts, Amulets, and Spells: Daniel Ogden on Græco-Roman Magic
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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Methodologies for the Study of Magic
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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Richard Seaford on the Origins of the Soul
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Sep 13, 2017 |
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Wouter Hanegraaff on Western Esotericism
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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A Secret History of Secret History, Part II
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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A Secret History of Secret History, Part I
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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So What is Western Esotericism, Anyway?
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Sep 05, 2017 |