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Topic: Orphicism

	orphismsw
		It looked to a written revelation as the source of religious authority, and its adherents were organized in communities, based, not on any real or supposed tie of blood, but on voluntary adhesion and initiation.
		Most of the Orphic literature that has come down to us is of late date and uncertain origin, but the thin gold plates, with Orphic verses inscribed on them, discovered at Thourioi and Petelia take us back to a time when Orphicism was still a living creed.
		From them we learn that it had striking resemblance to the beliefs prevalent in India about the same time, though it is really impossible to assume any Indian influence in Greece at this date.
	montgomery.cas.muohio.edu /ORPHEUS/orphismsw.html (1246 words)

	Empedocles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Empedocles was a preacher of the new religion which sought to secure release from the "wheel of birth" by purity and abstinence.
		Orphicism seems to have been strong at Acragas in the days of Theron, and there are even some verbal coincidences between the poems of Empedocles and the Orphicising Odes which Pindar addressed to that prince.
		On the other hand, there is no reason to doubt the statement of Ammonius that fr.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/empedocles.htm (2313 words)

	Béla Hamvas: Tabula Smaragdina
		Since only science had an active relationship with reality, philosophy had become a curious branch of pre and post science, which is as temporary as it is arbitrary.
		The fact that archaic thinking is initiation means this: it’s a theoretical praxis or practical theory, which provides man with a life plan that is practiced by theoretical initiation in the basic questions of existence.
		The last archaic initiation was that of Plato, whose pale teaching of a twisted Orphicism, later called idealism birthed so many chimeras.
	www.tradicio.org /english/hamvastabulasmaragdina.htm (17194 words)

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		Burnet supposes that because the Socrates of the dialogues tried to revive the Orphic theory of the soul and the Pythagorean teachings, he had been initiated in the Orphic mysteries at an early age, before the degeneration of the secret schools.
		But this was rather an effort of Plato, who had been initiated, to establish in philosophy the truths of Orphicism.
		As H.P.B. observes, the downfall of the principal sanctuaries had already begun in Plato's time.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Socrates.htm?lookup=aristoph.+eccl.+1 (3116 words)

	E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore
		We have a word, "criticism,"whose import is sufficiently distinct, through long usage, at least; and we have an art of high importance and clearly-ascertained limit, which this word is quite well enough understood to represent.
		Is there no word but "criticism"which may be made to serve the purposes of "Arcturus?"Has it any objection to Orphicism, or Dialism, or Emersonism, or any other pregnant compound indicative of confusion worse confounded?
		Still, we must not pretend a total misapprehension of the idea of Mr.
	www.eapoe.org /WORKS/essays/exordm.htm (2098 words)

	FAQ
		Our teachings will aid the student in developing a sense of inner confidence and balance, a rapport with divinity, social responsibility, and harmonious living within the spiritual and physical world around us.
		The Clarian Tradition contains elements of Pythagoreanism, Orphicism, Stoic philosophy, and a generous portion of Stregheria from an old Italian line.
		Our tradition has three main degrees with three advanced degrees beyond 3rd.
	www.religioterranova.org /FAQ.htm (489 words)

	The Socratic Doctrine of the Soul (No. B6)
		The trouble was till recently that there seemed to be no room for an age of such speculation within the limits of Greek history as we knew it, and many modern scholars have followed the lead of Herodotus in holding that it came from the 'barbarians,' and in particular from Egypt.
		On the other hand, Orphicism was closely bound up with the worship of Dionysus, which seems to have come from Thrace, and we can hardly credit the Thracians with a gift for mystical theology.
		If, however, we take a wider view, we shall find that doctrines of a similar character are to be found in many places which have nothing to do with Thrace.
	www.ccg.org /english/s/b6.html (10519 words)

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	verzeichnis.de.pcnotdienst24.com /misc/cotillons (372 words)

	TV JUNKIES #326 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There are a few reasons I can think of as to why they used the name Empedocles for the X Files episode title.
		First, Empedocles was an adherent of Orphicism which was a belief that you can only understand the true nature of the soul by stepping outside the body.
		He applied this belief to medicine and came up with the theory that "love" and "strife" could only exist within the body to the extent that the other was absent, ie if the body was, for example, all love then strife could not enter etc. Perhaps this is analagous to Mulder's theory on evil.
	tvj.salian.net /tvj326.htm (5464 words)

	E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		OED first gives a 1668 instance and then Poe's, 1842, in a review of Rufus Dawes, H:11:142: a well disciplined ornateness of language.
		orphicism - H:11.7, "Exordium," 1842: Has it (criticism) any objection to Orphicism, or Dialism, or Emersonism.
		also, H:11.189, essay, 1843: more profound than the Orphicism of Alcott.
	www.lfchosting.com /eapoe/papers/psblctrs/pl19741s.htm (11912 words)

	Behind the Name: Message: "Re: Vanessa"
		Now I looked up PHANES in various dictionaries and what I found was that he (!
		I couldn't find Phanessa) was the first God in the creation of the world in a religious system called Orphicism.
		No butterfly though according to my books, in ancient times his name was derived from the Greek word "phaino" which means "appear" (he was the first God to appear, I suppose).
	www.behindthename.com /bb_gen/arcview.php?id=37822 (399 words)

	Voice I+N The Darkness (2)
		A second-century Egyptian heresy identified the sacramental eating of the flesh of Jesus Christ in Holy Communion with the Orphic ascetics' easting of the Hercules-Dionysus-Mithras bull in their initiation ceremony.
		This implied that in Christianity, as in Orphicism, the female, the matriarchal, the water and the earth were, if not bad, at least in need of purification, while the male, the patriarchal, the fiery and aetherial were good, and not to be contaminated by contact with woman.
		As a woman procured the earthly ruin of Hercules and obliged him to flee to a more spiritual plane where he could encounter the Goddess in the security of a male environment,
	www.hagarqim.ndo.co.uk /clear2.htm (17552 words)

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	de.pcnotdienst24.com /misc/basiotripsy/Radford (422 words)

	The World-Soul by G.R.S.Mead
		If, then, we would venture so greatly as to try to lift a tiny corner of the veil of this ultimate mystery, we can do so only by trying to sympathize with the thought of the singer of the sacred verses.
		I need hardly point out the similarity of this vision of cosmogenesis with other of the most ancient cosmogonies known to us - for instance, from the traditions of Chaldea and Egypt, from the fragments of Orphicism and the remains of the Trismegistic sermons.
		I would first suggest from that from one point of view we may regard the Non-existent as Spirit or Consciousness, and the Existent as Matter.
	www.theosophy.ca /WorldSoul.htm (15815 words)

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