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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 13
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Ousia: some examples in Philo Judaeus
I will say that I do not buy into the mystical beliefs projected by romantic moderns, scholars or not, into Philo's work. If you insist on remaining blind, how can I make you see? (The eternal 'Lost Cause.') I am not talking about random use of words such as ousian and the terms for wealth, etc., a...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:08 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 75
- Views: 176237
Re: Hermetic Influence on Philo
I found your 2021 post describing your beliefs about Philo, and the influence of Hermetic literature on him: ... No, that post really doesn't describe my (adopted) thesis that the Hermetica /Hermetic sub-culture influenced Philo; others do. For examples: this , this , this , this , this , especiall...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:23 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Critical Study on Chronology of the Ancient World
- Replies: 44
- Views: 63987
"Sovietization of History" in 2024
Soviet Lies are baaaaaaack ... the Neo-Soviets are book-burning the history they would erase completely. And looting everything else. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/23/russia-ukraine-cultural-genocide-looting-indoctrination-deporatation/ Russian academics have created an Orwellian 98-page glossar...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:28 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: The Ghost in the Machine is heeeeeeerre ....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8911
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 75
- Views: 176237
In DVC, The Passion of Craving = Epithumia
'Craving/Desire' is unspecified by character, in the List of Maladies that the Therapeutae can cure. 2. ἡ δὲ προαίρεσις τῶν φιλοσόφων εὐθὺς ἐμφαίνεται διὰ τῆς προσρήσεως· θεραπευταὶ γὰρ καὶ θεραπευτρίδες ἐτύμως καλοῦνται, ἤτοι παρόσον ἰατρικὴν ἐπαγγέλλονται κρείσσονα τῆς κατὰ πόλεις — ἡ μὲν γὰρ σώμα...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 601
Re: Perspective
Don't open your veins, and spare the hemlock. We live now. The document that survived was surely 'corrupted' in little ways by other hands. I believe that possibility is obvious for everything that came down as canon literature. That doesn't make it False to my mind, however. I remember all the talk...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:28 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Timo S. Paananen's Dissertation on "Admissible Concealed Indicators"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 92
Re: Timo S. Paananen's Dissertation
What ever happened to his co-author, here?
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:23 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 601
Last Chore done for you, DCH
... I am not saying that the final editor HAS to be T J Alexander, but to me he was a good candidate for the dismissive POV about excesses in entertainment prevalent at Rome. Of course <aaarrrgghhh!!> This *could* be Philo's own words, but I am aware that Philo's works circulated under various name...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:11 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Teiresias
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3004
Re: Philo and Aristophanes' Eros Myth
DVC 63 , but my trans. below: 63. σιωπῶ τὰ τῶν μύθων πλάσματα καὶ τοὺς δισωμάτους, οἳ κατ’ ἀρχὰς προσφύντες ἀλλήλοις ἑνωτικαῖς δυνάμεσιν αὖθις οἷα μέρη συνεληλυθότα διεζεύχθησαν, τῆς ἁρμονίας ὑφ’ ἧς συνείχοντο λυθείσης· εὐπαράγωγα γὰρ ταῦτα πάντα, δυνάμενα τῇ καινότητι τῆς ἐπινοίας τὰ ὦτα δελεάζειν...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Thoughts on Secret Mark by Smith and Landau
- Replies: 60
- Views: 12337
Re: Thoughts on Regardie, Corrected
Thank you, Stephen. That is an entirely different interpretation, not one that I agree with, but meriting consideration. Edited as I see it: "Crowley was in England in the Thirties when Stephensen’s book was published. When was the article you have about the **Somebody Something** 'zwischen Sch...