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	Iamblichus
		He ushered in a totally new phase of Neoplatonism, changing it from a system of philosophy to one of theology and occultism.
		Iamblichus - listing in the Internet Encyclopdia of Philosophy (scroll down - under "Jamblichus and Others")
		Iamblichus - a short summary of life and teachings by Marda Kaiser, from the Ecole Initaive
	www.kheper.net /topics/Neoplatonism/Iamblichus.htm (98 words)

	Iamblichus (philosopher) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iamblichus was the chief representative of Syrian Neoplatonism, though his influence spread over much of the ancient world.
		Iamblichus introduced the idea of the soul's embodiment in matter, believing matter to be as divine as the rest of the cosmos.
		Iamblichus' analysis was that the transcendent cannot be grasped with mental contemplation because the transcendent is supra-rational.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iamblichus_%28philosopher%29 (1754 words)

	Iamblichus (philosopher) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was with Porphyry that he is known to have had a disagreement over the practice of theurgy, the criticizms of which Iamblichus reponds to in his attributed On the Egyptian Mysteries.
		Still, the treatise certainly emanated from his school, and in its systematic attempt to give a speculative justification of the polytheistic cult practices of the day, it marks a turning-point in the history of thought where lamblichus stood.
		The Roman emperor Julian, not content with Eunapius' more modest eulogy that he was inferior to Porphyry only in style, regarded Iamblichus as more than second to Plato, and claimed he would give all the gold of Lydia for one epistle of lamblichus.
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	Iamblichus (philosopher) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iamblichus was the chief representative of Syrian Neoplatonism, though the events ofhis life and the details of his creed are very imperfectly known.
		Iamblichus' analysis was that the transcendent cannot be grasped with mental contemplation because the transcendent issupra-rational.
		Clearly, Iamblichus meant for the masses of people to perform rituals that were more physical in nature, while the highertypes, who were closest to the divine (and whose numbers were few), could reach the divine realm though contemplation.
	www.therfcc.org /iamblichus-philosopher--54708.html (1569 words)

	Great Theosophists--Iamblichus: The Egyptian Mysteries (11 of 29)
		Iamblichus, the third member of this great Neoplatonic triad, was born in Chalsis, in Coele-Syria, at about the middle of the third century.
		Iamblichus agrees fully with Porphyry in regard to the danger of coming in contact with these "bad daimons." But there is a way, he says, in which a person can differentiate between the good spirits and the bad.
		Iamblichus then draws a strong line of demarcation between the passive condition which develops mediumship and the active condition of the mind in that sublime state of ecstasy which leads to the union of the Soul with the Higher Self.
	www.wisdomworld.org /setting/iamblichus.html (3464 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.12.04
		The title itself also suggests that Iamblichus was interested not so much in the actual life of Pythagoras as in a way of life according to the principles of his philosophy.
		Iamblichus chose the form of biography to declare that the virtuous life is the God-given paradigm that was transmitted through Pythagoras to the human race.
		In this context it is particularly interesting that Iamblichus maintains the ancient conception according to which virtue is not given by nature and cannot be taught while Athanasius rejects it and considers God's interference a necessary condition for acquiring virtue.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2002/2002-12-04.html (2041 words)

	Iamblichus (philosopher) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iamblichus was the chief representative of (An Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Syrian Neoplatonism, though his influence spread over much of the ancient world.
		It was with Porphyry that he is known to have had a disagreement over the practice of (Magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits) theurgy, the criticisms of which Iamblichus responds to in his attributed On the Egyptian Mysteries.
		By his contemporaries, Iamblichus was accredited with (Click link for more info and facts about miraculous) miraculous powers, which he, however, disclaimed.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/ia/iamblichus_(philosopher).htm (1842 words)

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		Iamblichus prescribed the rites and meditations of pagan religion as means of guiding the soul’s attention to the synthemata around and within it.
		Iamblichus, like the shamans of old, taught that the soul is housed not just by the physical body, but also by an invisible and immortal frame.
		According to historian Stephen Gersh, Iamblichus’ vision was "the dominant philosophy of late Antiquity in its most elaborate and developed form."(24) Every notable pagan thinker from Iamblichus’ age until the last light was snuffed at the Athenian Academy in 529 saw the world in his terms.
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	Neoplatonism
		Although Iamblichus was an advocate of conserving traditional pagan religions, he discovered in Pythagoreanism a revolutionary method to identify himself with the "old ways." Using Pythagorean cosmological principles as his standard, Iamblichus discovered theurgical dimensions in a variety of religious practices.
		Iamblichus argued that theurgy provided everyone, regardless of intellectual training, a way of returning to the gods by preparing their receptacles, however crude or subtle these needed to be.
		Iamblichus reserved some of his most severe criticism for these men, no doubt because the integrity of theurgy was vulnerable to the degenerative worship they encouraged.
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	Encyclopedia: Iamblichus (philosopher) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Only a fraction of Iamblichus' books have survived, most of them having been destroyed during the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
		St Francis Xavier converting the Paravas: a 19th-century image of the docile heathen The historical phenomenon of Christianization, the conversion of individuals to Christianity or the conversion of entire peoples at once (a political shift as much as a spontaneous mass shift in individual consciences), also includes the practice...
		Gnosticism is a blanket term for various religions and sects most prominent in the first few centuries A.D. General characteristics The word gnosticism comes from the Greek word for knowledge, gnosis (γνῶσις), referring to the idea that there is special, hidden mysticism (esoteric knowledge) that only a few possess.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Iamblichus-(philosopher) (2571 words)

	Iamblichus' On the Mysteries and Porphyry's Letter to Anebo
		Porphyry and Iamblichus were both highly esteemed and influential Pagan Neoplatonic philosophers whose views, especially their religious views, have not tended to receive a fair and unprejudiced treatment, and this is true of Iamblichus most of all.
		Iamblichus’ Replies : Because (a) the entities which are invoked as superiors but commanded as inferiors are forces that — though they are more powerful than human beings in specific fields — are nevertheless inferior because they are limited to those fields (183).
		Iamblichus’ Replies : Because (a) touching or not touching a dead body depends on whether or not the body has been consecrated (241) (b) Dead bodies may produce a stain since death is the opposite of life (242).
	www.esotericism.co.uk /iamblichus-and-porphyry.htm (3299 words)

	Pythagoras and the ko'an Counsels
		Iamblichus, D. 28) One must not dip one's hand into the lustral vessel., or wash in the public bath.[It is not clear in these cases if the participants do become cleansed.]Iamblichus, D. 29) Do not participate in lifting up a load, but you can help getting it down.
		Iamblichus, D. 58) One must not go to a temple as side-issue, nor fall right down on his knees, not even if he happens to be passing the very doors of the holy place.
		Iamblichus, D. The fish melanouros seems to be a variety of catfish, the Pythagorean interdiction may stem from a parasite it carried which was found dangerous to humans, rather than from its singular form beside familiar teleostic, bony fish.
	community.middlebury.edu /%7Eharris/Philosophy/PythagoreanCounsels.html (10000 words)

	Iamblichus/Jamblichus, Phoenician Neoplatonic Philosopher
		Iamblichus was a pupil of one of the first disciples of the philosopher Porphyry, Anatolius, the peripatetic, before being a disciple of Porphyry itself.
		Iamblichus succeeded in transforming the purely intellectual Neoplatonism of Plotinus into an even more spiritual form of Greco-Roman religious philosophy that include myths, rites, and magical formulas.
		He was a pupil of Aedesius, and Aedesius was one of the leading disciples of Iamblichus, and one of those who spoke to him as I have said.
	www.phoenicia.org /iamblichus.html (1167 words)

	Neoplatonism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Iamblichus also made a tripartite division of Soul, positing a cosmic or All-Soul, and two lesser souls, corresponding to the rational and irrational faculties, respectively.
		Iamblichus' On the Mysteries was written as a reply to Porphyry's criticisms, but the defense of the pupil did not succeed in vanquishing the persistent attacks of the master.
		Now Iamblichus does not completely reject dialectical reason; he simply requests that it be tempered by an appeal to intermediate divinities, who will aid the fallen soul in its ascent back towards the Supreme Good.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/n/neoplato.htm (6884 words)

	Gregory Shaw: Theurgy and the Soul
		Theurgy and the Soul is a study of Iamblichus of Syria (ca.
		Theurgy literally means "divine action." Unlike previous Platonists who stressed the elevated status of the human soul, Iamblichus taught that the soul descended completely into the body and thereby required the performance of theurgic rites—revealed by the gods—to unite the soul with the One.
		Iamblichus was once considered one of the great philosophers whose views on the soul and the importance of ritual profoundly influenced subsequent Platonists such as Proclus and Damascius.
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-01437-7.html (197 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.11.30
		Part II (144-237) deals with Iamblichus and his oeuvre: We see Iamblichus as a teacher of philosophy while his ethical theory in particular manifests itself in the shape of a series of virtues on the basis of Plotinus' doctrine, in particular Enn.
		Iamblichus' more extensive information about Pythagoras has nothing to do with his use of sources but with his intention to illustrate the right philosophical life with the paradigm of Pythagoras.
		When Iamblichus' book ends with a section on Pythagorean friendship, is it because it is philia that makes it possible for human beings to become as similar to god as possible and hence as happy as a human being can be.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-11-30.html (976 words)

	Pythagoras
		Iamblichus' work was just the first in a ten volume work, which in effect Pythagoreanized Neoplatonism, but the Pythagoreanism involved was Iamblichus' own conception of Pythagoras as particularly concerned with mathematics rather than an account of Pythagoreanism based on the earliest evidence.
		Iamblichus cites both Nicomachus of Gerasa's and Apollonius of Tyana's biographies of Pythagoras (VP 251 and 254) and appears to have used them extensively even where they are not cited (Burkert 1972a, 98 ff.).
		Unfortunately, these two additional lives are written by authors (Iamblichus and Porphyry) whose goal is explicitly non-historical, and all three of the lives rely heavily on authors in the Neopythagorean tradition, whose goal was to show that all later Greek philosophy, insofar as it was true, had been stolen from Pythagoras.
	setis.library.usyd.edu.au /stanford/entries/pythagoras (10538 words)

	Iamblichus of Chalcis
		The theoretical basis for theurgy is described in one of Iamblichus' surviving works, The Reply of the Master Abammon to "Porphyry's Letter to Anebo," better known as On the Mysteries of the Egyptians; it is a systematic reply to a number of objections raised by Porphyry against the practice of theurgy.
		Iamblichus' philosophy and theurgy were very influential on later Neoplatonists, such as Proclus (c.410-485).
		Iamblichus, On the Mysteries of the Egyptians: The Reply of the Master Abamon to the Letter of Porphyry to Anebo.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/papers/Iamblichus-long.htm (1345 words)

	Iamblichus: Theurgia, or the Egyptian Mysteries
		Iamblichus appears to have adopted these Rites and usages from the Egyptian worship, including with them a philosophic groundwork from the Platonic doctrines.
		Iamblichus lived chiefly at Khalkis In Syria, and was familiar with the magi and learned men of Persia and Assyria.
		Iamblichus is generally regarded as here endeavoring to reconcile the apparent discrepancy between Plato and Aristotle -- the latter described the soul as immovable, and Plato as self-moving, in which statement he refers to operation and not to essence.
	www.esotericarchives.com /oracle/iambl_th.htm (17728 words)

	bloch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iamblichus in his De Mysteriis assigns this same theurgic role to the angels.
		Iamblichus, however, firmly distinguishes the different ranks of soul, including angelic from human and thus cannot adopt the Chaldaean doctrine that human souls become angels.
		In De Mysteriis 2.2, Iamblichus paraphrases the Oracle, saying that the human soul can "ascend to a greater, angelic order." But Iamblichus immediately re-interprets this statement, saying that the human soul merely shares the realm of the angels (69.16-19) and thereby forms the kind of union that Iamblichus requires.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/01mtg/abstracts/finamore.html (361 words)

	Iamblichus (c. AD 242-327)
		The late ancient philosopher Iamblichus was, alongside Plotinus and Porphyry, a founder of Neoplatonism.
		Iamblichus took further the programme of 'harmonization' of Greek philosophies that had been started by Porphyry: Aristotle agreed with Plato even on the Theory of Forms and on learning as recollection.
		Iamblichus introduced radical revisions to Plotinus' philosophy, multiplying the ranks of being (see Plotinus §§3-4).
	www.muslimphilosophy.com /ip/rep/A062.htm (1101 words)

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		Few commentators were willing to accept Iamblichus as a philosopher, and most argued that Iamblichus had somehow betrayed the rationalism of Plotinus (see my review of one of Dodds' books).
		Essential, because one's understanding of philosophers like Iamblichus and Proclus (412-485) is unthinkable without a good enough grasp of theurgy; in that regard, the book is at once erudite and reader-friendly.
		Iamblichus holds that newcomers must not immediately seek union with the gods (unlike what Plotinus and Porphyry attempted to do): they first need to use matter ritually, and only after having mastered their passions can they move on to the following step.
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		Iamblichus' De Vita Pythagorica (On the Pythagorean Way of Life) is the first of a multi-volume work On Pythagoreanism in which Iamblichus attempts to offer a new programme for philosophy on Pythagorean principles (See Dominic J. O'Meara, Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Oxford 1989)).
		The final section sparkles with stimulating suggestions: the work should be viewed as a gospel perhaps it even reflects knowledge of the Christian gospels; it is `a kind of protreptic summation of the whole ethical tradition of Greek philosophy' (p.
		The notes are useful and to the point, but this text deserves more extensive commentary; it is to be hoped that either the authors themselves or somebody else inspired by this translation will provide us with a full treatment of this fascinating text.
	www.und.ac.za /und/classics/rev2-2.html (543 words)

	Alibris: Iamblichus
		Iamblichus on the mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians
		Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, brought a new religiosity to Neoplatonism.
		This edition of the fragments of Iamblichus' major work on the soul, De Anima, is accompanied by the first English translation of the work and a commentary.
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	Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Esoteric and Occult: Personalities: Iamblichus
		When Porphyry died, Iamblichus succeeded him as the head of the neoplatonic school.
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		Iamblichus: On the Pythagorean Way of Life (Scholars Press Homage Series)
		Iamblichus, the Exhortation to Philosophy: Including the Letters of Iamblichus and Proclus' Commentary on the Chaldean Oracles
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