• The Chaldean Oracles are a set of spiritual and philosophical texts widely used by Neoplatonist philosophers from the 3rd to the 6th century CE. While...
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  • communion with the Catholic Church Chaldean Rite, the East Syriac Rite of the Chaldean Catholics Chaldean Oracles, texts widely used by Neoplatonist philosophers...
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  • Hestia, Hermes, and Apollo. In the post-Christian writings of the Chaldean Oracles (2nd–3rd century CE) she was also regarded with (some) rulership over...
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  • the term is found in the mid-second-century neoplatonist work the Chaldean Oracles (Fragment 153 des Places (Paris, 1971): 'For the theourgoí do not fall...
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  • resided in their sound, not their meaning. The term also appears in the Chaldean Oracles. By the medieval period most were from Greek and Hebrew sources, such...
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  • theology Book IX: The personal daemon (spirit) Book X: Conclusion Chaldean Oracles Enneads Iamblichus (2003). Iamblichus: De mysteriis. Atlanta: Society...
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    performed theurgy, a ritual practice attested in such sources as the Chaldean Oracles. Scholars are still unsure of precisely what theurgy involved, but...
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    The Sibylline Oracles (Latin: Oracula Sibyllina; sometimes called the pseudo-Sibylline Oracles)[citation needed] are a collection of oracular utterances...
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  • they believed was reflected in Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, and the Chaldean Oracles, among other sources. ...[Ficino] saw himself as one member of a venerable...
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    movements such as early Christianity, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, the Chaldean Oracles, and late Orphic and Pythagorean literature. These doctrines were "characterized...
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  • Dionysus. The face of Taurus "gleams with seven rays of fire." The Chaldean Oracles of the 2nd century AD feature the seven rays as purifying agents of...
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    Consolation of Philosophy De Coelesti Hierarchia De divisione naturae Chaldean Oracles People Plotinus (students) Porphyry Iamblichus Julian the Apostate...
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    and "astrologer"......The Neo-Platonists connected the Chaldean Oracles with the ancient Chaldeans, obtaining a prestige coming from the East and legitimizing...
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  • Phillip; Cathar, Hermetic, Manichean, and Mandaean sources; and the Chaldean Oracles. Ecclesia Gnostica, Los Angeles, CA. Most Rev. Stephan Hoeller, Presiding...
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    representing "Eastern wisdom". Thus, Iamblichus, for example, referred to the Chaldean Oracles as transmitting "ancient Assyrian doctrines," and Plethon attributed...
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  • rational" and can be reached only through "ecstasy". Philo also held that the oracles of God supply the material of moral and religious knowledge. The earliest...
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  • Consolation of Philosophy De Coelesti Hierarchia De divisione naturae Chaldean Oracles People Plotinus (students) Porphyry Iamblichus Julian the Apostate...
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  • Consolation of Philosophy De Coelesti Hierarchia De divisione naturae Chaldean Oracles People Plotinus (students) Porphyry Iamblichus Julian the Apostate...
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    They are Chaldean books ... of Esdras, of Zoroaster and of Melchior, oracles of the magi, which contain a brief and dry interpretation of Chaldean philosophy...
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    Proclus and the Chaldean oracles : a study on Proclean exegesis, with a translation and commentary of Proclus' Treatise on Chaldean philosophy. Abingdon...
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  • philosophical studies of Aristotle, Plato, Orphic theogony and the Chaldean Oracles, and away from theurgy and rituals, which were previously being favoured...
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    the substance of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus 1818 Collection of the Chaldean Oracles (articles) Orphic Fragments, hitherto inedited (article) Remarks on...
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    Chaldaica (Zarathustra and its 320 Chaldean oracles), the first independent modern collection of fragments of the Chaldean Oracles, was also created as part of...
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    and "astrologer"......The Neo-Platonists connected the Chaldean Oracles with the ancient Chaldeans, obtaining a prestige coming from the East and legitimizing...
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