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Introduction [PDF]

, 2019
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores, inter alia, the strategy employed by Augustine in using Plato as a pseudo-prophet against later Platonists and explores ...
Emilsson, Eyjolfur, Janby, Lars Fredrik, Pavlos, Panagiotis G., Tollefsen, Torstein   +3 more
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Conjuring Planetary Spirits in the Twenty-First Century: Textual-Ritual Entanglements in Contemporary ‘Magic(k)’

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2023
This article illustrates textual-ritual entanglements in Western learned magic across almost two millennia through an analysis of Frater Acher’s Arbatel experience.
Bernd-Christian Otto
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Correspondences - Online Journal For The Academic Study of Western Esotericism, Volume 2.2 [PDF]

, 2014
Welcome to Correspondences, an international, peer-reviewed online journal devoted to the academic study of Western esotericism. By providing a wider forum of debate regarding issues and currents in Western esotericism than has previously been possible ...
Elwing, J., Roukema, Aren
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On Symbol and Symbolism in Origen’s Treatise «Contra Celsum» [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2016
The article describes a context analysis of terms σUμβολον and τUπος in Origen’s treatise Contra Celsum. The Christian, Gnostic and pagan types of symbolism are distinguished as they are introduced by Origen and his opponent.
Kurdybailo Dmitrii
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The Russian Symbolist Viacheslav Ivanov on Aesthetic Experience as Religious

Religions, 2021
Viacheslav Ivanov (1866, Moscow–1949, Rome) is one of the most prominent Russian symbolist poets and a leading theorist of symbolism at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Victor Bychkov
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Theurgy, Paredroi, and Embodied Power in Neoplatonism and Late Antique Celestial Hierarchies

Religions
This article will place the rituals of the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) for the acquisition of a supernatural assistant (paredros) into conversation with broader late antique debates surrounding the place of daimones within the celestial hierarchy.
Katarina Pejovic
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THE CORRELATION OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CANON OF ART (based on Vyacheslav Ivanov’s philosophical and aesthetic heritage)

Докса, 2018
The article focuses on the essence of internal and external canon of art in connection with the clearing of fundamental categories of theurgy and conciliarism.
Олена Соболевська
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FROM DECADENCE TO TEURGY (CONNECTIONS IN GENESIS OF CZECH AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE AT THE END OF 19TH AND BEGINNING OF 20TH CENTURY)

Филологический класс, 2019
The article focuses on comparative analysis of aesthetic philosophical concepts of Czech and Russian symbolism at the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century. The attention is predominantly paid to interpretation of selected theoretical studies and
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Symbol and intellect in the philosophy of Iamblichus: regarding "De Mysteriis 2.11.20-41" [PDF]

en el presente artículo abordamos la cuestión de la naturaleza del símbolo en la filosofía de Jámblico a través del análisis del pasaje de De Mysteriis 2.11.20-41.
Hermoso Félix, María Jesús
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Proclus on ἕνωσις: Knowing the One by the One in the Soul

Philosophies
At Plato’s insistence to become as godlike as one can, the Neoplatonists seek their salvation in union with the first principle they call the One, identifying this union as the highest end of philosophy.
Van Tu
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