On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians (De Mysteriis)
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- anglès
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- Obra completa
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- APAJàmblic. (n.d.). On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians (De Mysteriis). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/iamblichus/on-the-mysteries-of-the-egyptians-chaldeans-and-assyrians-de-mysteriis
- MLAJàmblic. On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians (De Mysteriis). Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/iamblichus/on-the-mysteries-of-the-egyptians-chaldeans-and-assyrians-de-mysteriis.
- ChicagoJàmblic. On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians (De Mysteriis). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/iamblichus/on-the-mysteries-of-the-egyptians-chaldeans-and-assyrians-de-mysteriis.
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De què tracta
La resposta de Iamblic a una carta de Porfiri que preguntava, amb escepticisme, per que un filosof hauria de practicar ritus: la defensa mes completa de la teurgia que s'ha conservat.
Context i història
Porfiri havia plantejat objeccions raonables: si els deus son impassibles, com els mou una pregaria? si son bons, com els obliga un ritu? Iamblic contesta que el problema es la premissa: la teurgia no funciona perque el filosof entengui res, sino perque els ritus son signes posats pels deus mateixos, i actuen encara que qui els fa no en sapiga la rao. Amb aixo separa la salvacio de la intel·ligencia, i obre el neoplatonisme a la practica religiosa. Es el text que va determinar el neoplatonisme posterior, incloent-hi Procle, i que Julia l'Apostata va fer servir com a fonament del seu intent de restaurar el paganisme. El titol es d'un editor renaixentista; Iamblic no el va posar.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
all bodies proceed from the vital and luminous body of the world. And, lastly, all these great monads are comprehended in the first one, from which both they and all their depending series are unfolded into light. Hence this first one is truly the unity of unities, the monad of monads, the principle of principles, the God of Gods, one and all things, and yet one prior to all. No objections of any weight, no arguments but such as are sophistical, can be urged against this most sublime theory, which is so congenial to the unperverted conceptions of the human mind, that it can only be treated with ridicule and contempt in degraded, barren, and barbarous ages. Ignorance and impious fraud, however, have hitherto conspired to defame those inestimable works in which this and many other grand and important dogmas can * Viz. The Philosophical Works of Proclus, together with those of Plotinus, Porphyry, lamblichus, Syrianus, Ammonius, Damascius, Olympiodorus, and Simplicius. XIV alone be found ; and the theology of the ancients has been attacked with all the insane fury of ecclesiastical zeal, and all the imbecile flashes of mistaken wit, by men whose conceptions on the subject, like those of a man between sleeping and waking, have been turbid and wild, phantastic and confused, preposterous and vain. Indeed, that after the great incomprehensible cause of all, a divine multitude subsists, cooperating with this cause in the production and government of the universe, has always been, and is still, admitted by all nations and all religions, however much they may differ in their opinions respecting the nature of the subordinate deities, and the veneration which is to be paid to them by man; and however barbarous the conceptions of some nations on this subject may be, when compared with those of others.…