Lessico filosofico e prassi rituale negli Hermetica e nella letteratura magica: Spunti per una comparazione: Philosophical Vocabulary and Ritual Practice in Hermetics and Magic Literature: Cues for a Comparison.

Is there in the Hermetic texts a demiurgic Intellect that produces the cosmos thinking through images? The existence of philosophical and religious currents that attribute to the demiurgical Intellect a discursive thought or diánoia is well attested in late antiquity and is one of the conceptual iss...

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Published in:Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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Main Author: Zago, Michela (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:Italian
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Published: Morcelliana 2017
In: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Further subjects:B Anthroposophy
B Demiurges
B Magical Papyri
B Corpus Hermeticum (Book)
B Corpus hermeticum
B Discursive psychology
B Hermetica Oxoniensia
B Discursive thought (diánoia)
B Papiri magici
B Plotinus
B Plotino
B Pensiero discorsivo (diánoia)
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Summary:Is there in the Hermetic texts a demiurgic Intellect that produces the cosmos thinking through images? The existence of philosophical and religious currents that attribute to the demiurgical Intellect a discursive thought or diánoia is well attested in late antiquity and is one of the conceptual issues around which Plotinus articulates his polemic against the Gnostics. Broadening the comparison to the philosophical arguments of Plotinus on the one hand and to the rituals of vision contained in the Demotic and Greek magical papyri on the other, rare occurrences were isolated in which the reason of a demiurgic creation through diánoia is also attested in the Hermetic texts: as mythical Anthropos' mistake in Poimandres and as doctrinal element, which seems to combine cosmogonic process and vision ritual, in the Hermetica Oxoniensia and CH IX (English)
ISSN:2611-8742
Contains:Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni