Eleni Pachoumi – författare

Der vorliegende Band konzentriert sich auf die Interaktionen und synkretistischen Spannungen zwischen Religion und Philosophie in der Spätantike. Verschiedene Aufsätze untersuchen Themen wie persönliche religiöse Einstellungen, die Einführung in die Mysterien, Orphismus, Vorstellungen von Theurgie, Magie, das Streben des Philosophen nach Intimität oder Einheit mit dem Göttlichen, Magie und Christentum, die Rolle des Gebets in philosophischen Texten und Orakeln, Traumgesichtern und Prophezeiungen. Die Beiträge umfassen ein breites Themenfeld mit Themen wie Neoplatonismus, chaldäische Orakel, Theurgie, patristische Literatur, christlich-religiöse Texte und Manichäismus.

This volume is an interdisciplinary investigation and contextualization of the various concepts of divine union in the private and public sphere of the Greek and Near Eastern worlds.

The book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks. The Hieratic Art is the Theurgic Art, theurgy, the theurgic union with the divine. Proclus describes the theurgic union, putting an emphasis on a conceptual blending of ritual actions (teletai, e.g. the role of statues, incenses, synthêmata, symbols, purifications, invocations and epiphanies) and philosophical concepts (e.g. union of many powers, ‘one and many’, symphathy, natural sympathies, attraction, mixing and division).

The book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks. The Hieratic Art is the Theurgic Art, theurgy, the theurgic union with the divine. Proclus describes the theurgic union, putting an emphasis on a conceptual blending of ritual actions (teletai, e.g. the role of statues, incenses, synthemata, symbols, purifications, invocations and epiphanies) and philosophical concepts (e.g. union of many powers, 'one and many', symphathy, natural sympathies, attraction, mixing and division).