Tag: Ammonius Saccas
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Christian Truth, or the eclectic Theosophical System
Every effort to help the West has failed and faced trials, each falling into the same patterns of individual and organizational turmoil, blame and mythologizing an adversary. So, what is this effort that the modern Theosophical Movement represents to “the West”? It is important to challenge our notions of “the West” as I explained in…
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Survival of Post-Christian Successors to the Mysteries
“Thus it is not Judaism and Christianity that remodelled the ancient Pagan Wisdom, but rather the latter that put its heathen curb, quietly and insensibly, on the new faith; and this, moreover, was still further influenced by the Eclectic Theosophical system, the direct emanation of the Wisdom-Religion. All that is grand and noble in Christian…
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The Mission of Ammonius Saccas and the New Platonists of Alexandria
The aim of the Hellenist philosopher Ammonious Saccas from Alexandria, founder of the New Platonic Eclectic School, was to reconcile the plethora of sects in Egypt and Palestine at the time. The central object was faith in one immutable, nameless, inexorable Divine Principle and eternal law by which the Universe was governed. It was by…
The American Minervan 