Platonic Orientalism
Platonic Orientalism is a school of thought that arose in the late Hellenistic world. It is distinguished from the abstract philosophical speculation of classical Platonism by the development of its own mythologies and ritual practices focused on the attainment of a liberatory salvation through gnosis.[1]
Notes
Platonic Orientalism represents the transformation of Platonism from a philosophy into a religious worldview. [2]
This forms a foundation for gnostic, hermetic, and theurgical currents in late antiquitiy. [3]
Platonic Orientalism is a locus point of the Old Energy Creation Template, meaning it is a place where elites developed archetypes that would come to constitute the Old Energy Creation Template.
To trace sources, see Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity." [4]
Footnotes
- ↑ Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- ↑ Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- ↑ Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- ↑ Brown, Peter. The World of Late Antiquity. London: Thames and Hudson, 1971.
