عنوان

Taking the Shape of the Gods

شماره

LA108324

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Taking the Shape of the Gods

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Gregory Shaw

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Scholarship in the last few decades has corrected mischaracterizations of the Hermetica and Iamblichean theurgy as examples of the decline of Hellenic thinking, but questions remain of how to understand them, particularly since Iamblichus claims to follow the teachings of Hermes. This essay attempts to shed light on hermetic rebirth and the immortalization of the soul described in CH XIII and NH VI.6 by examining them according to the principles of Iamblichean theurgy. I argue that hermetic immortalization and rebirth did not culminate in an escape from the body and the world but were realized-to the contrary-as a divine and demiurgic descent into the world and one's body. While this essay owes a great debt to Garth Fowden's The Egyptian Hermes, my reading of hermetic rebirth does not follow his dualist understanding of hermetic metaphysics and soteriology. The culmination of both theurgic and hermetic mystagogy is non-dual: deification is realized in the world. Scholarship in the last few decades has corrected mischaracterizations of the Hermetica and Iamblichean theurgy as examples of the decline of Hellenic thinking, but questions remain of how to understand them, particularly since Iamblichus claims to follow the teachings of Hermes. This essay attempts to shed light on hermetic rebirth and the immortalization of the soul described in CH XIII and NH VI.6 by examining them according to the principles of Iamblichean theurgy. I argue that hermetic immortalization and rebirth did not culminate in an escape from the body and the world but were realized-to the contrary-as a divine and demiurgic descent into the world and one's body. While this essay owes a great debt to Garth Fowden's The Egyptian Hermes, my reading of hermetic rebirth does not follow his dualist understanding of hermetic metaphysics and soteriology. The culmination of both theurgic and hermetic mystagogy is non-dual: deification is realized in the world.

تاريخ نشر

2015

توصيف ظاهري

136-169

عنوان

Aries

شماره جلد

15/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0593

اصطلاح موضوعی

demiurgy

اصطلاح موضوعی

dualism and non-dualism

اصطلاح موضوعی

esoteric

اصطلاح موضوعی

Hermes

اصطلاح موضوعی

Iamblichus

اصطلاح موضوعی

theurgy

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Gregory Shaw

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700593-01501009

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y