Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks

Download or read book Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks written by Eleni Pachoumi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks. The Hieratic Art is the Theurgic Art, theurgy, the theurgic union with the divine. Proclus describes the theurgic union, putting an emphasis on a conceptual blending of ritual actions (teletai, e.g. the role of statues, incenses, synthêmata, symbols, purifications, invocations and epiphanies) and philosophical concepts (e.g. union of many powers, ‘one and many’, symphathy, natural sympathies, attraction, mixing and division).