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Iamblichus’ Path to the Ineffable [PDF]
Iamblichus of Chalcis postulated theurgy on metaphysical grounds as the only means of communion with the supreme principle of everything that exists. Iamblichus set this principle as a completely transcendent reality, unattainable by reason, and, at the ...
Molina, Jose
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ABSTRACT The scholars of nationalism have recognised that nationalist discourses often invoke magical events and frame national past in supernatural terms. This article explores the relationship between magic and nationalism in the contemporary world.
Siniša Malešević
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L’impiego di elementi naturali nei rituali affini alla teurgia
In the theurgic rituals attested by the Chaldean Oracles and other writings related to Neoplatonism plants, animals and stones were often used to evoke a certain divinity.
Freni, Giulia
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A New Form of Taoist Theurgy in the Qing Dynasty: Xizhu Doufa in the Taoist–Tantric Fusion Style
The Longmen Xizhu Xinzong 龍門西竺心宗 was a Taoist sect that was active during the Qing Dynasty. The sect reportedly originated in India and has long been renowned for its Xizhu Doufa 西竺斗法.
Yuhao Wu
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Liturgy, Theurgy, and Active Participation: On Theurgic Participation in God [PDF]
This thesis, providing a metaphysical grounding for liturgical participation, argues that ‘active participation’ in the liturgy must be understood principally as our participation in God’s act and particularly in the act of Christ and only secondarily as
KRINGLEBOTTEN, KJETIL
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SOURCE SEARCHES IN CREATIVITY OF PRIEST P. FLORENSKIJ, M. ELIADEAND J. DERRIDA [PDF]
This article provides Pavel Florenskiy’s original theory of cognitive activity organization as well as the role of cult, religious experience and myths in this process.
D. ORLOV
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Umění a religiozita v esteticko-filozofickém systému Dmitrije Sergejeviče Merežkovského
The study is aimed on traces of religiosity in aesthetic-philosophical system of a Russian symbolistic poet, prosaic writer and thinker D.S. Merezhkovsky.
Jan Vorel
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Solovyov’s Metaphysics between Gnosis and Theurgy
This article provides a reading of Vladimir Solovyov’s philosophy as expressed in his ‘Lectures on Divine Humanity’ and ‘The Meaning of Love’.
Aleksandr Gaisin
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“Hellenic religion of suffering God” in the “Philosophy of cult” of priest Pavel Florensky: formulating the problem [PDF]
This article points out the presence of common themes and directions of research in the religious and philosophical legacy of priest Pavel Florensky and Vyacheslav Ivanov, particularly the concept of religious cult put forward in Ivanov’s work “Hellenic ...
Nikolai Pavliuchenkov
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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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