Albrile, Ezio (Author)
MHNH (Revista Internacional de Investigación sobre Magia y Astrología Antiguas)
Volume: 2
Pages: 145--174
This paper studies the relations between gnostic syncretism and theurgic mysticism, taking in consideration the ecstatic experience that allows to teh initiate to move away from the material world and to rise twoard the intelligible Light. Different traditions in the crossroad between East and West narrate this celestial ascent through the planetary worlds as the attainment of a state of beatitudine, a condition of lumious purity where the "shining Mother" resides. In the system of the Chaldean Oracles this beatitiude is divided in three worlds: Love, Truth and Faith, and only in the latter reigns the "mother" Hekate, soverign of coporeity and of its transcendency.
...MoreDescription This essay looks at the relationship between gnostic syncretism and theurgic mysticism as it appears in different traditions, East and West.
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