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	Iamblichus (Representative) - LoveToKnow 1911
		The modifications introduced by Iamblichus were the elaboration in greater detail of its formal divisions, the more systematic application of the Pythagorean number-symbolism, and chiefly, under the influence of Oriental systems, the thorough-going mythic interpretation of what the previous philosophy had still regarded as notional.
		Immediately after the absolute one, Iamblichus introduced a second superexistent unity to stand between it and the many as the producer of intellect, and made the three succeeding moments of the development (intellect, soul and nature) undergo various modifications.
		Iamblichus does not seem ever to have attained to that ecstatic communion with and absorption in deity which was the aim of earlier Neoplatonism, and which Plotinus enjoyed four times in his life, Porphyry once.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Iamblichus_(Representative) (1428 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_(philosopher) (1758 words)

	Likeness to God as Far as Possible, Deification Doctrine in Iamblichus and Three Eastern Christian Fathers - Edward ...
		Iamblichus' notion of the soul's salvation is not, at first glance, all that different from the conceptions of later Christian thought, particularly Maximus the Confessor.
		Iamblichus conceived of the eskhaton as the perfect unification of soul and cosmos, in which the soul finds rest, and the authority of the divinity is maintained in and for eternity.
		For Iamblichus, the final goal of theurgy is the overcoming of the particular mode of existence of a soul immersed in the lowest sphere of divine emanation: the material cosmos.
	www.theandros.com /iamblichus.html (4310 words)

	Iamblichus
		Iamblichus was said to be a man of great culture and learning and was renowned for his charity and self-denial.
		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.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Iamblichus.html (1785 words)

	Iamblichus (philosopher)
		However, the differences of this book from Iamblichus' other works in style and in some points of doctrine have lead some to question whether Iamblichus was the actual author.
		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.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/iamblichus__philosopher_ (1786 words)

	Theosophy Trust
		Iamblichus did not merely pass on the teachings of his august predecessors: he refined their doctrines at every level and extended them into areas hitherto left in silence.
		Recognizing that the philosophical teachings of Pythagoras and Plato were based upon insight into and concern for the destiny of each human being, Iamblichus understood that the nature and properties of the soul, necessarily hidden by the veil of the persona, must be consciously nurtured.
		Though Iamblichus was calumniated by the church as a teacher of pagan superstitions and dismissed by a philosophical tradition that preferred to ignore the spiritual significance of theurgy, those who studied him drew different conclusions.
	www.theosophytrust.org /tlodocs/articlesTeacher.php?d=Iamblichus.htm&p=61 (2770 words)

	Iamblichus of Chalcis Summary
		Iamblichus was the chief representative of Assyrian Neoplatonism, though his influence spread over much of the ancient world.
		Iamblichus wrote of gods, angels, demons and heroes, of twelve heavenly gods whose number is increased to thirty-six or three hundred and sixty, and of seventy-two other gods proceeding from them, of twenty-one chiefs and forty-two nature-gods, besides guardian divinities, of particular individuals and nations.
		Clearly, Iamblichus meant for the masses of people to perform rituals that were more physical in nature, while the higher types, who were closest to the divine (and whose numbers were few), could reach the divine realm through contemplation.
	www.bookrags.com /Iamblichus_of_Chalcis (1850 words)

	Iamblichus (philosopher) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		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 (additional info and facts about miraculous) miraculous powers, which he, however, disclaimed.
	absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/ia/iamblichus_(philosopher).htm (1797 words)

	Theurgy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The source of Western theurgy can be found in the philosophy of the Neoplatonists, especially Plotinus and Iamblichus.
		His student, Iamblichus of Syria, taught a more ritualized method of theurgy, that apparently involved invocation and religious, as well as magic, ritual.
		Iamblichus believed theurgy was an imitation of the gods, and in his major work, On the Egyptian Mysteries, he described theurgic observance as "ritualized cosmogony" that endowed embodied souls with the divine responsibility of creating and preserving the cosmos.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Theurgy (637 words)

	Encyclopedia: Iamblichus (philosopher)
		A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy.
		It was with Porphyry that he is known to have had a disagreement over the practice of theurgy, the criticisms of which Iamblichus responds to in his attributed On the Egyptian Mysteries.
		Only a fraction of Iamblichus' books have survived, most of them having been destroyed during the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Iamblichus-(philosopher) (2555 words)

	The Teachings of Iamblichus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		Iamblichus taught that the hallowed repertoire of pagan spiritual practices held potent means of stirring awareness.
		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.
	www.lotusandrose.com /DewDrops/Iamblichus.htm (4059 words)

	Neoplatonism - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Its founder and foremost exponent was the Roman philosopher Plotinus, who was born in Egypt, studied in Alexandria with the philosopher Ammonius Saccus, and about 244 carried the Neoplatonic doctrine to Rome, where he established a school.
		Other important Neoplatonic thinkers were the Syrian-Greek scholar and philosopher Porphyry, the Syrian-Greek philosopher Iamblichus, and the Greek philosopher and mathematician Proclus.
		Although a number of medieval theologians and philosophers, notably the German mystic Meister Eckhart, were deeply influenced by Neoplatonism, Roman Catholic dogmatists condemned its unorthodox tenets.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761556329___3/Neoplatonism.html (283 words)

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		He was not a traditional philosopher, and clearly he was a not a traditional figure.
		Iamblichus thought of himself as a Pythagorean sage, and was strongly focused on the thought and doctrine of Pythagoras and his followers.
		Iamblichus was clearly a strong supporter of Pythagorean thought and doctorine, and was largely responsible for the commitement to paper of that thought.
	students.roanoke.edu /groups/relg211/johnson/KeyFigures.html (1027 words)

	Iamblichus: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Iamblichus
		So much was Porphyry (who became the teacher of Iamblichus in Neo-Platonic philosophy) convinced of this, that though he himself never practised theurgy, yet he gave instructions for the acquirement of this sacred science.
		Iamblichus wrote many books but only a few of his works are extant, such as his "Egyptian Mysteries" and a treatise "On Demons", in which he speaks very severely against any intercourse with them.
		Iamblichus is credited with having been once levitated ten cubits high from the ground, as are some of the modern Yogis, and even great mediums.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Iamblichus/id/200714 (1404 words)

	Neoplatonism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		This is a striving or desire rendered all the more poignant and worthy of philosophy precisely because it is born in the depths of existential angst, and not in the primitive ecstasies of unreflective ritual.
		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.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/n/neoplato.htm (6884 words)

	Iamblichus: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Of his writings on mathematical and philosophical subjects there remain several parts of an extensive work on the philosophy of Pythagoras.
		In the passage cited earlier, Iamblichus emphasised the constant danger to theurgic...
		Iamblichus willingness to embrace human lowliness thus...Finamore, from the University of Iowa, in his "Iamblichus, the Sethians, and Marsanes" (pp.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/iamblichus.jsp (870 words)

	Theurgy Summary
		According to Iamblichus, there exists, in theurgy, a mode of fellowship with the divine that is independent of philosophical thought and that "those who philosophize theoretically" do not achieve.
		His student, Iamblichus of Syria, taught a more ritualized method of theurgy, that involved invocation and religious, as well as magical ritual.
		Iamblichus believed theurgy was an imitation of the gods, and in his major work, On the Egyptian Mysteries, he described theurgic observance as "ritualized cosmogony" that endowed embodied souls with the divine responsibility of creating and preserving the cosmos.
	www.bookrags.com /Theurgy (2226 words)

	Theurgia.org
		At the head of his system he placed the transcendent incommunicable one (hen amethekton), whose first-begotten is intellect (nous), from which proceeds soul (psuche), which in turn gives birth to phusis, the realm of nature.
		These virtues were classified by Porphyry as political, purifying (kathartikai), theoretical, and paradigmatic; and to these Iamblichus adds a fifth class of priestly virtues (hieratikai aretai), in which the divinest part of the soul raises itself above intellect to absolute being.
		He condemns as folly and impiety the worship of images of the gods, though his master held that these simulacra were filled with divine power, whether made by the hand of man or (as he believed) fallen from heaven.
	www.theurgia.org /iamblichus_biography_britannica.html (1142 words)

	In Pursuit of Mysteries » Between Eros and Anteros:
		Iamblichus taught that the hallowed repertoire of pagan spiritual practices held potent means of stirring awareness.
		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.
	www.arcanology.com /?p=797 (3895 words)

	On the Daemon - Phil Meade - Theandros - Online Journal of Orthodox Christian Theology and Philosophy
		The philosopher Democritus was concerned with Divine encounters and tried to understand the truth of these happenings.
		Porphyry was a philosophic astrologer while a student of Plotinus and he discovered a rule on how to discern the guiding daemon astrologically.
		For the Philosophical Astrologers the Part of Daemon was said to signify the soul and body, faith, prophecy, religion and the culture of God awareness, secrets, cogitations, intentions and hidden things.
	www.theandros.com /daemon.html (3040 words)

	Neoplatonism
		Iamblichus of Apamea, following the standard progression of Greek philosophers, was instructed by Porphyry.
		Iamblichus also divided the single nature of the Soul into three parts: the cosmic, rational, and irrational soul.
		Therefore, for Iamblichus "the relation of humankind to the divine is one of subordinate to superior" (Moore 7).
	students.roanoke.edu /groups/relg211/henderson/philosophers.html (846 words)

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		Iamblichus studied under the famed Neoplatonist Porphyry(3), likely in Rome, but came to believe that his own discernment surpassed that of his teacher.
		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.
		The dichotomy of ancient philosopher and shaman is a false one.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Styx/6443/AR1.htm (5246 words)

	Origen of Alexandria [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		In this environment, Gnosticism flourished, and Origen was the first truly philosophical thinker to turn his hand not only to a refutation of Gnosticism, but to offer an alternative Christian system that was more rigorous and philosophically respectable than the mythological speculations of the various Gnostic sects.
		Origen may rightfully be called the first philosopher of history, for, like Hegel, he understood history as a process involving the participation of persons in grand events leading to an eventual culmination or 'end of history'.
		Iamblichus saw no reason to divide the divinity into persons or emanative effects; rather, he saw the divinity as operative, in varying degrees, at every level of reality.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/o/origen.htm (5005 words)

	Proclus' Life and Teachings
		Born in Constantinople into a well-off family, he was sent to Alexandria for schooling and was taught philosophy by the Aristotlean philosopher Olympiodorus the Elder, and mathematics by Heron (not to be confused with a more famous mathematician of the same name).
		He believed the true philosopher should pay homage to the gods of all nations, becoming "a priest of the entire universe." He was initiated into a number of mystery schools, composed hymns to the gods, fasted in honor of the Egyptian divinities, and practiced theurgy.
		Like Prophyry and Iamblichus, Proclus opposed Christianity, with it's expectation of the end of the world [see On the Eternity of the World], and passionately defended paganism.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Neoplatonism/Proclus-lifeof.html (860 words)

	Phoenicia, Phoenicians: Iamblichus, Phoenician Neoplatonic Philosopher
		Jamblichus) was a pupil of the Phoenician philosopher Porphyry, Anatolius, the peripatetic
		Iamblichus was a pupil of one of the first disciples of the philosopher Porphyry, Anatolius, the peripatetic, before being a disciple of Porphyry itself.
		After these men came a very celebrated philosopher, Iamblichus, who was of illustrious ancestry and belonged to an opulent and prosperous family.
	phoenicia.org /iamblichus.html (1203 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Iamblichus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		The events of his life and the details of his creed are very imperfectly known, but the main tenants of his belief can be worked out from extant writings.
		Still, for Iamblichus, Pythagoras was the supreme authority.
		Theurgy is a series of rituals and operations aimed at recovering the transcendent essence by retracing the divine 'signatures' through the layers of being (similar to Crowley's descriptions of the Body of Light).
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Iamblichus (1725 words)

	Iamblichus: Theurgia, or the Egyptian Mysteries
		Iamblichus lived chiefly at Khalkis In Syria, and was familiar with the magi and learned men of Persia and Assyria.
		The Platonic philosophers before Iamblichus taught that the many gods are the "outshinings" or emanations of the one Superessential Deity and not substances complete of themselves.
		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)

	Teachings: The Pagan Iamblichus
		He may be called the founder of theurgic magic among the Neo-Platonists and the reviver of the practical mysteries outside of temple or fane.
		This it is which Iamblichus and many others, including the mediaeval Rosicrucans, meant by union with Deity.
		Iamblichus wrote many books but only a few of his works are extant, such as his "Egyptian Mysteries" and a treatise "On Daemons", in which he speaks very severely against any intercourse with them.
	www.wiccanway.net /teach25.html (535 words)

	Iamblichus -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Syrian philosopher, a major figure in the philosophical school of Neoplatonism and the founder of its Syrian branch.
		Iamblichus, more than any other single philosopher, has generally been credited with the transformation of the Neoplatonism advocated by Plotinus earlier in the 3rd century into the stiff and complicated, yet often profound, pagan religious philosophy, best known from the works of Proclus.
		Attempting to develop a theology encompassing all of the rites, myths, and divinities of syncretistic paganism, he was the first Neoplatonist to displace Plotinus' purely spiritual and intellectual mysticism in favour of theurgy, the magical conjuration of the gods.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9041868 (508 words)

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