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	The Chaldaean Oracles of Zoroaster
		The Oracles speak of the "Paths of the Soul," the tracings of inflexible fire by which its essential parts are associated in integrity; while its various "summits," "fountains," and "vehicula," are all traceable by analogy with universal principles.
		One Oracle assures us that, "The girders of the Soul, which give her breathing, are easy to be unloosed," and elsewhere we read of the "Melody of the Ether" and of the "Lunar clashings" experiences which testify to the reality of their occult methods.
		As the Oracle thereforth saith: God is never so turned away from man, and never so much sendeth him new paths, as when he maketh ascent to divine speculations or works in a confused or disordered manner, and as it adds, with unhallowed lips, or unwashed feet.
	www.esotericarchives.com /oracle/oraclez.htm (8785 words)

	The Chaldæan Oracles of Zoroaster: Preface
		The term "Oracles" was probably bestowed upon these epigrammatic utterances in order to enforce the idea of their profound and deeply mysterious nature.
		A certain portion of these Oracles collected by Psellus, appear to be correctly attributed to a Chaldæan Zoroaster of very early date, and are marked "Z," following the method indicated by Taylor, with one or two exceptions.
		A collection of curious old tracts, among which are the Oracles of Zoroaster, copied from Thomas Taylor and I. Cory; with an essay by Edward Gibbon.
	www.sacred-texts.com /eso/coz/coz01.htm (582 words)

	MITHRAS AND THE HYPERCOSMIC SUN
		It is thus likely that the Chaldaean concept of a hypercosmic sun is at least partly derived from the famous solar allegories of Plato's Republic, in which the sun is used as a symbol for the highest of Plato's Ideal Forms, that of the Good.
		Finally, to return to the Chaldaean Oracles, the fact that the Chaldaean concept of the "hypercosmic sun" was at least sometimes taken in a completely literal and spatial sense is shown by a passage from the Platonizing Emperor Julian's Hymn to Helios.
		However, Julian's intimate association with Iamblichus and the Chaldaean Oracles, in which the doctrine of the "hypercosmic sun" is well established, renders the possibility that Julian is referring to the Iranian tradition highly unlikely.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /andylloyd/esp_andylloyd_9b.htm (2815 words)

	Chaldaean stars The Chaldaean Oracles of Zoroaster
		The Chaldaick Oracles of Zoroaster Stanley, 1661 There is also, adds he an Exposition by the Chaldan Wise-men upon these Oracles, short and He fixed a great Company of inerratick Stars.
		GRS Mead: The Chaldaean Oracles As Chaldan meant Babylonian in the wider sense of a member of the dominant race in the The heavenly course is, presumably, the revolution of the Great Sphere of fixed stars
		Kidinnu, the Chaldaeans, and ancient Babylonian astronomy There are also several tribes of the Chaldaean astronomers.
	millicurie.host1.ranusa.com /1150632809.html (1060 words)

	THE FIGURE OF HECATE AND DYNAMIC EMANATIONISM IN THE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Chaldaean Oracles are roughly contemporary with Numenius, being attributed to Julian the Theurgist who was credited with a miraculous deliverance of Marcus Aurelius' troops in 173 CE.
		Indeed, there is a certain parallel between the Sethian Triple Powered One and the Chaldaean Hecate, in terms both of emanative and intermediary functions, in terms of a common triplicity, and in terms of a strong association of both with Vitality and the source of Life and multiplicity.
		And in the case of Hecate, we have noted that the Chaldaeans regarded her right side as the source of the primordial soul that animates the realms of light, divine fire, ether and the heavens (frg.
	jdt.unl.edu /emanate.htm (4092 words)

	The Chaldaean Oracles
		The two Julians, the 'Chaldaean' and the 'Theurge', would seem to have made use of their talents in the Antonine era, that is, at a time when the ideas of the Stoa enjoyed their greatest success and even, with Marcus Aurelius, a kind of imperial blessing.
		Fire is, so to speak, omnipresent in the Oracles, either as lightning, or the creative and life-imparting breath, or the dazzling or scintillating light in the multiplicity of souls and beings.
		The Chaldaean Oracles left a profound mark on the great intellects of latter Neoplatonism, to a degree that is hard to conceive and whose importance is difficult to measure.
	www.granta.demon.co.uk /arsm/jg/chaldaean-oracles.html (3851 words)

	Oracles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Oracles of the Bush is an annual poetry event held in Tenterfield NSW Australia
		At Elysium Gates "oracles" is the term used for the volunteer of a subject area that helps answer member questions and helps plan member activities.
		These are some of the Personal Oracles and Prophecy Engines I've written for the basic purpose of helping folks get a little more reflection on their day-to-day lives.
	freerune.muffrunes.com /oracles (608 words)

	bloch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Fragment 138 of the Chaldaean Oracles, we are presented with three Greek words: ANGELIKOI ENI CHORO ("in angelic space").
		It concerns the abode of purified human souls after death; these souls, after living an exceptionally pure life on earth, are rewarded by living "in angelic space;" but the souls must eventually leave this abode and as angels descend to earth in order to help struggling human beings.
		Weaving together Chaldaean and Neoplatonic doctrines, he affirms the truth of the Oracle and of his own philosophy.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/01mtg/abstracts/finamore.html (361 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.07.40
		And she is able to conclude (quite surprisingly, in view of that monument of the study of ancient magic, Hans Lewy's Chaldaean Oracles and Theurgy [Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1956]) that "le rituel théurgique chaldaïque n'offre que peu de points communs avec la magie" (150).
		In her treatment of the Chaldaean Oracles, in any case, VL in fact needs none of this distracting appeal to "religion" (as opposed to magic) or to Hellenism.
		Lewy (Chaldaean Oracles 449-456) spelled out the substantial reasons for believing that Porphyry referred to the Chaldaeans throughout his career, and Plotinus scholars (e.g., Rist and Dodds) in verious ways treat the Oracles as a part of the intellectual background of Plotinus (who never mentions them).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-07-40.html (1785 words)

	The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ® The Chaldaean Oracles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Chaldæan Oracles are all that remain of a rather lengthy text that was said to have been brought to Rome by Julianus the Chaldæan Theurgist in the 2nd century C.E. These fragments contain sacred doctrines and philosophies of ancient Chaldæan priests which have come down to us through Greek translations.
		Portions of the Oracles are quoted in the Practicus and Philosophus Rituals of the Golden Dawn, particularly in the Practicus Ceremony.
		The Oracles of the Gods declare, that through purifying ceremonies, not the Soul only, but bodies themselves become worthy of receiving much assistance and health, for, say they, the mortal vestment of coarse Matter will by these means be purified.
	www.hermeticgoldendawn.org /Documents/Archives/oracle.htm (8237 words)

	Did the Mithraists Inhale? Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although the correspondence between the cosmology and theology of the Mithras Liturgy and of the Chaldaean Oracles indicates some connection between the two, the theurgic techniques of ritual ascent provide the most striking parallel between the Mithras Liturgy and the Chaldaean Oracles.
		The rays of the sun are the connective pathway by which the Chaldaean theurgist rises to the heights, and the theurgist must travel on the light of these rays to ascend.
		In the Chaldaean Oracles, the process of the ascent is thus accomplished in the same manner as in the Mithras Liturgy.
	www.brynmawr.edu /classics/redmonds/inhale.html (611 words)

	GRS Mead: The Chaldaean Oracles
		The Chaldæan Oracles are a parallel endeavour, on a smaller scale, to philosophize the wisdom of Chaldæa.
		The most interesting point is that those who knew the Oracles, and were in the direct line of their tradition, did not regard these seven firmaments or zones as the "planetary orbits." One of the seven they assigned to the empyrean, three to the ætherial, and three to the gross-material or sublunary.
		Proclus tells us that the Oracles taught that there were seven circuits or rounds of the irregular or imperfect "spheres," and in addition the single motion of the eighth or perfect sphere which carried the whole heaven round in the contrary direction towards the west.
	www.webcom.com /~gnosis/library/grs-mead/grsm_chaldean.htm (9842 words)

	Michael Psellos
		When we come to consider his outlook on the Oracles, it must be admitted that, depending on the context, he expresses two kinds of reaction that appear to be contradictory.
		One is the expected, typical repudiation of pagan nonsense that, in the normal course of events, need be seen as little more than a device to forestall charges of impiety; in unusual circumstances the same response could be turned into a weapon to use against somebody else.
		This is precisely what Psellos himself does in the course of a church-sponsored attack on Patriarch Michael Cerularios; in the document he drew up for the purpose, he refers to the Chaldaean system as a concoction of myths about oracles and various kinds of spirits and gods.
	www.granta.demon.co.uk /arsm/jg/psellos.html (2484 words)

	oracles - Webled.com
		[ The printed copies of the oracles to be found in England are the ]...
		[ The oracles urge men to devote themselves to things divine, and not to ]...
		[ In pagan times the oracles and predictions ascribed to the sibyls were ]...
	www.webled.com /oracles.htm (344 words)

	Chaldaen Oracles: Fragments and Comments
		The doctrine of the Oracles as to the Self-conditioning of the Supreme Monad may, however, perhaps, be recovered from the passage of the Simonian Great Announcement quoted in our last little volume (pp.
		And the manifested side of the Fire has all things in itself which a man can perceive of things visible, or which he unconsciously fails to perceive; whereas the hidden side is everything which one can conceive as intelligible, or which a man fails to conceive.
		Rhea, in sooth, is both the Fountain and the Flood of the blest Knowing Ones; for she it is who first receives the Father's Powers into her countless Bosoms, and poureth forth on every thing birth [-and-death] that spins like to a wheel.
	www.magusbooks.com /wingedserpent/oracles/I-1.html (4010 words)

	Apollonius 6
		This oracle of the now deified Apollonius calls to mind the thirteenth and twenty-second sections of Pletho's 'Chaldaean Oracles', indeed it may itself be regarded as both a genuine communication, and a guide for those hardy souls assaying the theurgic art of ascent to their spiritual original.
		Yet sure as Julian the Theurgist claimed also to have summoned and questioned Plato, so every unlearned impostor in the ancient world may have claimed spiritual descent for his or her soul from one of the Olympians.
		After seven days Apollonius emerged from the cave carrying a book of pythagorean philosophy, perhaps written in the same 'Cappadocian' dialect of greek in which Apollonius is supposed to have written his works on sacrifices, and on divination by the stars.
	pstaples99.users.btopenworld.com /Apollonius6.htm (611 words)

	The Chaldean Oracles
		The anatomy of the Soul was, however, carried much farther than this, and, although in its ultimate radix recognised as identical with the divinity, yet in manifested being it was conceived to be highly complex.
		The Chaldæan philosophy recognized the ethers of the Elements as the subtil media through which the operation of the grosser elements is effected—by the grosser elements I mean what we know as Earth, Air, Water and Fire—the principles of dryness and moisture, of heat and cold.
		This Oracle does not appear in either of the ancient collections, nor in the group of oracles given by any of the mediaeval occultists.
	www.hermetic.com /texts/chaldean.html (4182 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.3.22
		Therein Smith reviews theories about the origin and genesis of this text, and, although noting that certainty is impossible, inclines toward the view that the form in which ancient Neoplatonists knew it was the result of an incremental process to which their own exegesis contributed.
		An important reflection of this imposition of Neoplatonic concerns onto the Chaldaean Oracles was the intricate soteriological theory its revelations inspired, an integral part of which Smith holds to have been the elevation of the soul through theurgy, particularly as espoused by Iamblichus in reaction to Porphyry's telescoping psychic theory.
		It was not just the Chaldaean Oracles but equally Iamblichus' exegesis to which Julian accorded canonical status.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1997/97.03.22.html (2421 words)

	Apollonius 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		True, much of what we now term Cabbala spread mainly from the west to the east, yet Jewish emigres in the Byzantine Empire were in communication with all parts of the Jewish diaspora, indeed Constantinople proved one of the most fertile grounds for the spread of the Sabbatean heresy two hundred years later.
		Gemistos' advocacy of sun-worship, his veneration for the high priests of pagan learning and his personal zeal for the clearly daemonic 'Chaldaean Oracles' would have brought him ultimately to the stake.
		Plethon somehow managed to avoid serious catastrophe both in life and after death; buried on the Greek island of Mistra just before its invasion by the Turks, his body was exhumed and carried away to Rimini by one of his most ardent admirers, the Italian warlord and unashamed lover of pagan learning Sigismond Malatesta.
	members.aol.com /liongateinfo/liongateonline2/Apollonius4.htm (702 words)

	Greek Oracles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The writer and traveller Pausanias tells us of two oracles to Gaia, one of them at Olympia, which is located in the district of Elis in the northwest Peloponnese.
		Pausanias has an interesting account of this oracle as well, one in which the relationship between Zeus and Gaia is also highlighted.
		The other oracle of Gaia mentioned by Pausanias was at Delphi, a site located in Phocis in central Greece in a rugged, mountainous setting.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/235253 (592 words)

	Bert VAN DEN BERG: ‘Becoming like God’ according to Proclus’ Interpretations of the Timaeus, the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A special role in this process of separation and return is reserved here for the goddess that is also the cause of life for the soul, since according to the general law of Proclus’ metaphysics, there can be no emanation from a cause without reversion upon it.
		The fact that Proclus is able to read back the theology of the Chaldaean Oracles into the Timaeus need not come as a surprise.
		For, as Luc Brisson has shown, the authors of the Chaldaean Oracles had re-utilized a Middle Platonic interpretation of the Timaeus in order to provide a context for the vicissitudes of the human soul.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/02mtg/abstracts/Vdberg.html (457 words)

	Amazon: Listmania! - View List "Ten excellent books on Neoplatonism" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chaldaean oracles and theurgy: Mysticism, magic and platonism in the later Roman Empire by Hans Lewy
		Postplotinian Neoplatonism can't be understood without a good enough grasp of the Chaldaean Oracles and theurgy; on that topic, Lewy's study is the still the best.
		A solid introduction to Proclus, even though it emphasizes his contributions to science to the detriment of his preoccupations with myth, oracles and theurgy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/3GUGVGE03B2U7 (470 words)

	Brisson Paper Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the reign of Marcus Aurelius (161-180 A.D.), Plato expressed himself through the mouth of a medium (Julian the son), and set forth the essential features of his doctrine, as presented in the Timaeus, in the context of oracular consultations requested by Julian senior.
		The surviving fragments of the Chaldaean Oracles bear witness to this strange interpretation of the Timaeus, developed within a magical context.
		The interpretative context in which the Chaldaean Oracles were written is that of Middle Platonism, which developed around the three principles of God, the Models, and Matter.
	www.nd.edu /~timaeus/brisson.html (395 words)

	Raising Apollonius
		It would no doubt seem curious to a modern scholar to see the 'Chaldaean Oracles' placed beside the figure of the Pythagorean sage Apollonius of Tyana, but to earlier authorities Apollonius was himself both magician and alchemist, indeed this aspect of his biography has probably yet to be fully written.
		As Gemistos Plethos edition of the Chaldaean Oracles differs in so many respects from all others before or since, and as the orientalizing character of the selections and translations stands out in comparison with modem editions I give a complete translation:
		Lewy, H. 'Chaldaean Oracles and Theurgy', Cairo 1951.
	thewytchery-ivil.tripod.com /spiritsofnature/id56.html (4349 words)

	Oracles - Words Without Borders -> The Oracles of the Virgin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Random oracles are practical: A paradigm for designing efficient protocols.
		The Chaldaean Oracles gave it their enigmatic backing: The Chaldaean Oracles left a profound mark on the great intellects of latter Neoplatonism,
		Most of these oracles originated mostly because they're things I was asked Oracles and some of those "woo-woo" sides of life.
	lookforlink.com /?q=oracles (360 words)

	Find in a Library: Chaldaean oracles and theurgy : mysticism, magic and platonism in the later Roman Empire
		Find in a Library: Chaldaean oracles and theurgy : mysticism, magic and platonism in the later Roman Empire
		Chaldaean oracles and theurgy : mysticism, magic and platonism in the later Roman Empire
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/70b46329d169b6e7.html (67 words)

	Mithras and the Hypercosmic Sun
		According to Proclus, the Chaldaeans call the "solar world" situated in the supramundane region "entire light." In another passage, this philosopher states that the supramundane sun was known to them as "time of time...."[1]
		Our discussion thus far has shown that in the late second century C.E. there is found in the Chaldaean Oracles the doctrine of the existence of two suns: one the normal, visible sun, and the other a "hypercosmic"sun.
		[1] Hans Lewy, Chaldaean Oracles and Theurgy (Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1978) pp.
	www.well.com /user/davidu/hypercosmic.html (2410 words)

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