Download or read book The Chaldean Oracles Vol 2 Echoes from the Gnosis Volume IX written by G. R. S. Mead and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the borderland between the intelligible and sensible worlds were the Iynges - mysterious beings whose name may perhaps be translated as Wheels or Whirls, or even as Shriekers. As, however, I seem to detect in these three ruling Principles a correspondence with the creators, preservers and destroyers, or rather regenerators (perfecters or enders) of Indian theosophy, I will call these Iynges Starters, in the sense of Initiators or Setters-up of the initial impulse.We will first set down the "wisdom" of the lexicon on this puzzling subject, warning the reader that he is having his attention turned to the wrong side of the thing - the littleness and superstition of what in the Oracles was clearly intended to be a revelation of some greatness.Iynx is said to be the bird that we call the wryneck; it was called iynxin Greek from its cry, as it is called wryneck in English from the movement of its head. Iyge and iygmós are used of howling, shrieking, yelling, both for shouts of joy and cries of pain, and also of the hissing of snakes.The ancient wizards, it is said, used to bind the wryneck to a wheel, which they made to revolve, in the belief that they thus drew men's hearts along with it and chained them to obedience; hence this magic wheel was frequently used in the belief that it was a means of recovering unfaithful lovers. This operation was called setting the magic bird or magic wheel a-going. The unfortunate bird seems to have been attached to the wheel with its wings and legs pegged out crosswise so as to form four spokes, spread-eagle fashion. The wordiynx thus came to mean a charm and a spell, and also a passionate yearning.
Download or read book The Chaldean Oracles written by G. R. S. Mead and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chaldæan Oracles (Lógia, Oracula, Responsa) are a product of Hellenistic (and more precisely Alexandrian) syncretism.The Alexandrian religio-philosophy proper was a blend of Orphic, Pythagoræan, Platonic, and Stoic elements, and constituted the theology of the learned in the great city which had gradually, from the third century B.C., made herself the centre of Hellenic culture.In her intimate contact with the Orient, the mind of Greece freely united with the mysterious and enthusiastic cults and wisdom-traditions of the other nations, and became very industrious in "philosophizing" their mythology, theosophy and gnosis, their oracular utterances, symbolic apocalypses and initiatory lore.The two nations that made the deepest impression on the Greek thinkers were Egypt and Chaldæa; these they regarded as the possessors of the most ancient wisdom-traditions.How Hellenism philosophized the ancient wisdom of Egypt, we have already shown at great length in our volumes on Thrice-greatest Hermes. The Chaldæan Oracles are a parallel endeavour, on a smaller scale, to philosophize the wisdom of Chaldæa. In the Trismegistic writings, moreover, we had to deal with a series of prose treatises, whereas in our Oracles we are to treat of the fragments of a single mystery-poem, which may with advantage be compared with the cycle of Jewish and Christian pseudepigraphic poems known as the Sibylline Oracles.
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Download or read book Chaldean Oracles written by G. R. S. Mead and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chaldaean Oracles have survived as fragmentary texts from the 2nd century AD, and consist mainly of Hellenistic commentary on a single mystery-poem that was believed to have originated in Chaldea (Babylonia). The origins of the texts are unknown and mysterious. Some have claimed that the Chaldaean Oracles, in the form in which they survive, were attributed to Julian the Theurgist and his father, Julian the Chaldaean. This work holds clues to the grand works profound.
Download or read book The Western Esoteric Traditions written by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western esotericism has now emerged as an academic study in its own right, combining spirituality with an empirical observation of the natural world while also relating the humanity to the universe through a harmonious celestial order. This introduction to the Western esoteric traditions offers a concise overview of their historical development. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke explores these traditions, from their roots in Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism in the early Christian era up to their reverberations in today's scientific paradigms. While the study of Western esotericism is usually confined to the history of ideas, Goodrick-Clarke examines the phenomenon much more broadly. He demonstrates that, far from being a strictly intellectual movement, the spread of esotericism owes a great deal to geopolitics and globalization. In Hellenistic culture, for example, the empire of Alexander the Great, which stretched across Egypt and Western Asia to provinces in India, facilitated a mixing of Eastern and Western cultures. As the Greeks absorbed ideas from Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, and Persia, they gave rise to the first esoteric movements. From the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, post-Reformation spirituality found expression in theosophy, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry. Similarly, in the modern era, dissatisfaction with the hegemony of science in Western culture and a lack of faith in traditional Christianity led thinkers like Madame Blavatsky to look East for spiritual inspiration. Goodrick-Clarke further examines Modern esoteric thought in the light of new scientific and medical paradigms along with the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. This book traces the complete history of these movements and is the definitive account of Western esotericism.
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Download or read book Chaldean Oracles written by G. R. S. Mead and published by Leonardo Paolo Lovari. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNDER this general title is now being published a series of small volumes, drawn from or based upon, the mystic, theosophic and gnostic writings of the ancients, so as to make more easily available for the ever-widening circle of those who love such things, some echoes of the mystic experiences and initiatory lore of their spiritual ancestry. There are many who love the life of the spirit, and who long for the light of gnostic illumination, but who are not sufficiently equipped to study the writings of the ancients at first hand, or to follow unaided the labours of scholars. These little volumes are therefore intended to serve as introduction to the study of the more difficult literature of the subject; and it is hoped that at the same time they may become for some, who have, as yet, not even heard of the Gnosis, stepping-stones to higher things.
Download or read book The Chaldean Oracles written by Ruth Majercik and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material /RUTH MAJERCIK -- INTRODUCTION /RUTH MAJERCIK -- FRAGMENTS /RUTH MAJERCIK -- VARIOUS CHALDEAN EXPRESSIONS /RUTH MAJERCIK -- DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS /RUTH MAJERCIK -- COMMENTARY /RUTH MAJERCIK -- BIBLIOGRAPHY /RUTH MAJERCIK -- INDEX /RUTH MAJERCIK.
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