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 …

Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in
schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle steal his ideas from the library in …

1. Since I have elsewhere offered a general introduction to the school of Valentinus and
since many of the teachings of this school will be discussed in the course of this study, a …

Bojana Mojsov tells the story of the cult of Osiris from beginning to end, sketching its
development throughout 3,000 years of Egyptian history. Draws together the numerous …

Research into the so-called “philosophical” Hermetica has long been dominated by the
foundational scholarship of André-Jean Festugière, who strongly emphasized their Greek …

(Quispel, 1992). Both volumes made an attempt at tracing the history of a certain type of
religious or religiophilosophical thought and practice from antiquity to the present. In the …

The ivory was cut into small pieces by one sharp, heavy tool operated at high speed. The
surfaces of the cuts are burnt, as are the surfaces of the recognizable small pieces of the …

Destined to be a classic enjoyed by both the professional scholar and the lay person, this
comparative religion book contains a startling perspective of the extraordinary history of the …

Abstract In De Mysteriis VIII Iamblichus gives two orderings of first principles, one in purely
Neoplatonic terms drawn from his own philosophical system, and the other in the form of …

In this first chapter we will be dealing with two broad, variegated, and partly interconnected
religious currents that both flourished in Late Antiquity and emphasized the importance of …