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The paper is devoted to the analysis of theurgic aesthetics in relation to the concept of utopia that initiates a different understanding of the philosophy of the Russian diaspora representatives through the prism of utopian theurgy of beauty and art ...
Galina G. Kolomiets, Pavel V. Lyashenko
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Theurgical project of Silver Age: from origins to problem statement [PDF]
Two turning points in the history of theurgy are examined in the present article. Those points had a considerable influence on the conceptualization of that phenomenon in the very beginning of the XX century, especially in the researches of the Russian ...
Nina Penyaflor Rastorgueva
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The science of talismans today
Abstract The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance.
Benjamin Anderson
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On the Structure and Significance of Augustine’s Moral Grammar
Abstract This essay traces Augustine’s understanding of the structuring elements that give shape to human becoming. It presents this understanding as a distinctive form of maximalism in thinking about happiness, justice, and power, and as standing apart from classical and modern alternatives in its approach to desire, power, and mediation.
Martin Westerholm
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Métamorphoses du thème du retour de l’âme du De Regressu de Porphyre au livre X du De civitate Dei
Book 10 of the City of God is the main source about Porphyry’s On the return of the soul, but it can also be read as an Augustinian treatise On the return of the soul in which discussing with Porphyry gives Augustine the opportunity to take hold on the ...
Pauline Rates
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Aspekte visionärer, ritueller Dichtung bei Henry More? [PDF]
In diesem Beitrag wird der Versuch unternommen, die Gedichte der Psychodia Platonica des Cambridger Platonikers Henry More vor dem Hintergrund ritueller, theurgischer Texte des spätantiken Neuplatonismus zu verstehen, um sich auf diese Weise der ...
Bergemann, Lutz
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The Genesis of Myth in V. Solovyov’s Early Writings. Myth as Theogon [PDF]
In Vladimir Solovyov’s works myth is presented in two ways: as the authorial myth, which is a part of the future “universal religion”, and as an object of theoretical refl ection in the process of philosophical and religious research.
Vaganova Natal'ia
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The Neoplatonic Substructure of Russian Orthodox Iconography and Theology
This paper aims to uncover the underlying Neoplatonic ideas embedded in Russian Orthodox iconography and theology. The focus is on two earlier figures of Neoplatonism, namely, Iamblichus and Plotinus.
Emile Alexandrov
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Plato and Hermes in Mani’s Prophetology: a possible adaptation to the theurgical milieu
The aim of this article is to set forth conjectures that are likely to explain the inclusion of Plato and Hermes as heralds of Mani in the testimony of Ephrem of Syria.
João Paulo Dantas, Gabriele Cornelli
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Quelques remarques sur la réception d’un pseudépigraphe : les Oracles Chaldaïques [PDF]
Cet article propose une hypothèse au sujet des Oracles Chaldaïques en les abordant sous l’angle de l’histoire de leur réception. L’objectif de l’A. est de replacer l’origine de ces oracles dans le contexte immédiat de la spiritualité néoplatonicienne.
Cazelais, Serge
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