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Tag Archives: astrology

conference: ‘Ralph Cudworth at the Crossroads of Modernity’

March 10, 2019by dmb93

The following announcement is courtesy of the ‘philosophie-antique’ mailing list. Cudworth himself was hardly ancient (he lived and wrote in the 17th century), but he and other ‘Cambridge Platonists’ were […]

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New book: The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science

January 16, 2019by dmb93

This looks like a must-consult for future work involving astrology in the ancient world. David Brown. The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science. With contributions by : Jonathon Ben-Dov, Harry Falk, […]

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Daglish on Mastrocinque, the mysteries of Mithras

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Attilio Mastrocinque’s work is nothing if not distinctive. His From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism is one of those books that comes at the old problems from a very different perspective. […]

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New book: The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus

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An up-to-date study of the ancient Hermetica in their Egyptian context with attention to Egyptian, Greek, and Gnostic sources alike – a sort of sequel to Mahé’s Hermès en Haute-Égypte – […]

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Call for papers: Arcanum

April 4, 2016by dmb93

Ingrid Lotze has sent out the following call for papers for a special journal issue on esotericism and medieval sources. It certainly is a (relatively) neglected subject. Watch this space! […]

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