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247 episodes

Gerasimos Merianos on East Roman Alchemy in Late Antiquity and Beyond, Part INew

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The Horoscope of Islam and The Alchemical Stone: Maria Papathanassiou on Stephanos of Alexandria, Part IINew

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Philosophy and Occult Sciences at Constantinople: Maria Papathanassiou on Stephanos of Alexandria, Part INew

Feb 2026#2135/5 translatedListen

Jonathan Greig on the Question of Universal Salvation in MaximusNew

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Esoteric Orthodoxy in East Rome: Jonathan Greig on Maximus the ConfessorNew

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Introducing the Apocalypse of the Pseudo-Methodios, with Christopher BonuraNew

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Jewish Apocalypse in the Seventh Century: Martha Himmelfarb on the Sefer Zerubbabel

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Touraj Daryaee on Zoroastrianism in the Seventh Century and Beyond

Sep 2025#2097/7 translatedListen

Ahab Bdaiwi on the Rise of Shi'i Esotericism

Jul 2025#20811/11 translatedListen

Ahab Bdaiwi on 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, his Family, and the Origins of Shi'i Islam

Jul 2025#2078/8 translatedListen

Seventh-Century History for Students of Western Esotericism

May 2025#2061/1 translatedListen

Introducing the Qur'an Part III: Qur'anic Texts vs. the Qur'an

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Introducing the Qur'an, Part II: Ambiguity and Esoteric Themes

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Introducing the Qur'an, Part I: Revelation, Text, and History

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Fred Donner on the History of the History of Early Islām

Feb 2025#3091/1 translatedListen

Fred Donner on the History of Early Islam

Feb 2025#202Listen

Matthew Melvin-Koushki on Islam, 'the West', and Western Esotericism

Jan 2025#20142/42 translatedListen

Paul Pasquesi on the Book of the Holy Hierotheos

Dec 2024#19938/38 translatedListen

The Pseudo-Dionysios, the Esoteric, and (Christian) Mysticism

Dec 2024#19816/16 translatedListen

Naming Divine Nothingness: Introducing the Pseudo-Dionysios

Dec 2024#19721/21 translatedListen

One Empire, Many Names: Reading 'Byzantium' with Anthony Kaldellis

Oct 2024#19610/10 translatedListen

Contested Esotericisms at the End of Antiquity: Simplicius, Philoponus, and Olympiodorus

Oct 2024#1951/1 translatedListen

The Last Platonists? Philosophic Teaching, Christianity, and Polytheism in Late-Antique Alexandria

Sep 2024#1942/2 translatedListen

All from Nothing: Sara Rappe on Damascius

Sep 2024#1932/2 translatedListen

Hagia Sophia and the Problem of 'Esoteric Architecture'

Aug 2024#1921/1 translatedListen

Kevin van Bladel on the Sabians of Harran and the Fate of the Athenian Academy

Jul 2024#1911/1 translatedListen

Edward Watts on the Age of Justinian and the Closing of the Athenian Academy

Jul 2024#190Listen

Danielle Layne on Proclus' Religious Life and Thought

May 2024#1892/2 translatedListen

Graeme Miles on Proclus the Commentator

May 2024#188Listen

Stephen Rego on the Nous in Proclus, Part I: Exegesis

May 2024#2843/3 translatedListen

The Esoteric Proclus, Part II: Esoteric Exegesis and the Occult Ontology of Language

May 2024#1871/1 translatedListen

The Esoteric Proclus, Part I: The Life and Thought of an Esoteric Sage

Apr 2024#186Listen

Dylan Burns with the Noetic Fire: On Proclus and Christianity

Mar 2024#2806/6 translatedListen

Dylan Burns on Proclus the Successor

Mar 2024#1851/1 translatedListen

Hierocles of Alexandria and the Pythagorean Golden Verses

Mar 2024#18423/23 translatedListen

The Great God Pan Lives: Introducing the Athenian Academy

Feb 2024#18352/52 translatedListen

Martiana on Martianus Capella and the Marriage of Philology and Mercury

Jan 2024#18228/28 translatedListen

Macrobius and the Commentary on Scipio's Dream

Jan 2024#18130/30 translatedListen

Augustine of Hippo: Saint of the Exoteric

Nov 2023#18034/35 translatedListen

The Manichaean Catholic: Augustine of Hippo

Nov 2023#17917/18 translatedListen

Stephen Cooper on Marius Victorinus, Philosophy, Panpsychism, and a Modern Religious Platonism

Nov 2023#26035/36 translatedListen

Stephen A. Cooper on Marius Victorinus and Latinate Christian Platonism

Nov 2023#17810/11 translatedListen

Gretchen Reydams-Schils on Calcidius and the Timaeus

Oct 2023#17717/18 translatedListen

Plato Latinus

Oct 2023#17685/86 translatedListen

Jay Bregman on Synesius of Cyrene

Sep 2023#1756/6 translatedListen

Noble Lies and Philosophic Silence: Hypatia, Synesius, and the New Esotericism in the Fourth Century

Sep 2023#1746/6 translatedListen

Hypatia of Alexandria: The Life and Death of a Philosopher and her City

Sep 2023#1736/6 translatedListen

'And When Rome Falls, Falls the World': The Fall of Rome and Western Esotericism

Aug 2023#17221/22 translatedListen

'Visibly a Goddess': Heidi Marx on Sosipatra of Pergamum

Aug 2023#17122/22 translatedListen

Frederico Fidler on Sallustius' On the Gods and the World

Jul 2023#1707/7 translatedListen

Strategies of the Esoteric in the Hellenism of the Emperor Julian: Exclusion and Pluralism in a Late-Antique Polytheism

Jul 2023#16933/34 translatedListen

Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part II: The Emperor's Religio-Philosophic Project

May 2023#1683/3 translatedListen

Jeremy Swist on the Emperor Julian, Part I: the Political Background and Political Project of the Emperor

May 2023#16737/37 translatedListen

Joel Kalvesmaki on Evagrius' Kephalaia Gnostika: Philosophy, Scripture, and Apophatic Mysticism

May 2023#16611/11 translatedListen

Joel Kalvesmaki on Evagrius of Pontus, the 'Gnostic Trilogy', and the Origenist Controversy

May 2023#16520/21 translatedListen

Theology, Politics, and Radiant Darkness: Michael Motia on Gregory of Nyssa

Apr 2023#16440/40 translatedListen

Father Sergey Trostyanskiy on the Cappadocian Fathers, Part II

Apr 2023#16316/16 translatedListen

Father Sergey Trostyanskiy on the Cappadocian Fathers, Part I

Apr 2023#16220/20 translatedListen

Claire Hall on Firmicus Maternus

Apr 2023#1612/2 translatedListen

Kocku von Stuckrad on Monotheist Astrologies in (Late) Antiquity

Mar 2023#1601/1 translatedListen

Metals, Temples, and Living Statues: Shannon Grimes on Zosimus' Egyptian Context

Mar 2023#1593/3 translatedListen

Bink Hallum on Zosimus Arabicus: The Final Quittance

Mar 2023#2335/5 translatedListen

Bink Hallum on the Extended Zosimus

Mar 2023#1583/3 translatedListen

Matteo Martelli Introduces Zosimus of Panopolis

Jan 2023#1574/4 translatedListen

Recognising the Real in the Forgery: The Pseudo-Clementine Literature

Jan 2023#1562/2 translatedListen

Into Syriac Spirituality in Theory and Practice with Paul Pasquesi

Nov 2022#22312/13 translatedListen

Paul Pasquesi on Christian Asceticism in the Late-Antique Syriac World

Nov 2022#1542/2 translatedListen

Into Coptic Magic with Korshi Dosoo

Nov 2022#22123/24 translatedListen

Korshi Dosoo on Early Christian Magic

Nov 2022#153Listen

Prolegomena to Christian Magic

Oct 2022#1525/5 translatedListen

The Testament of Solomon and the Solomonic Tradition, Part II

Oct 2022#1511/1 translatedListen

The Testament of Solomon and the Solomonic Tradition, Part I

Sep 2022#1501/1 translatedListen

Exploring the Sefer ha-Razim

Sep 2022#14935/37 translatedListen

Curses! Sarah Veale on Roman 'Curse-Tablets'

Sep 2022#14813/15 translatedListen

Daniel James Waller on the Jewish Incantation-Bowls

Aug 2022#14720/20 translatedListen

Gideon Bohak on Late-Antique Jewish Magic

Aug 2022#14628/28 translatedListen

Naomi Janowitz on Jewish Magic and 'The Jewish Magi' in Antiquity

Aug 2022#551/1 translatedListen

Thinking through Monotheism, Henotheism, Polytheism, and Dualism in Late Antiquity

Aug 2022#14525/26 translatedListen

Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity, Part II: The Rise of Christianity and the Invention and Eclipse of 'Paganism'

Jun 2022#14418/18 translatedListen

Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity, Part I: Geopolitics, Empire, and Rabbinic Judaism

Jun 2022#14334/34 translatedListen

Run the Numbers: The Theology of Arithmetic

Jun 2022#14210/10 translatedListen

Brian Alt on Sacred Materials, Divine Names, and Subtle Physiology in Iamblichean Theurgy

May 2022#14132/33 translatedListen

Gregory Shaw on the Phenomenology of Iamblichean Theurgy

Apr 2022#14031/32 translatedListen

John Finamore on Iamblichean Theurgy in Theory and Practice

Apr 2022#13920/21 translatedListen

The Great Theurgy Debate: Porphyry's Letter to Anebo, Iamblichus' Response, and the Question(s) of Ritual

Apr 2022#13834/35 translatedListen

The Esoteric Iamblichus

Mar 2022#13732/34 translatedListen

Esoteric Hermeneutics, Divine Hierarchy, and the Ineffable: The Philosophy of Iamblichus, Part I

Feb 2022#1359/9 translatedListen

Introducing Iamblichus of Chalcis

Feb 2022#1347/7 translatedListen

A Word to Conjure With: On 'Theurgy' in Late Antiquity and Beyond

Jan 2022#13312/12 translatedListen

Astral Accretions, Fate, and the Resurrection-Body: Other Subtle Bodies of Antiquity

Jan 2022#13211/11 translatedListen

Soul-Flight, Noetic Bodies, and Pneumatic Vehicles: Toward a History of the Platonist Subtle Body

Jan 2022#13129/29 translatedListen

Methodologies for Studying the Subtle Body

Dec 2021#1303/3 translatedListen

Porphyry and the Barbarians: Ethnicity, Religious Practice, and Esoteric Interpretation

Oct 2021#12819/19 translatedListen

Dorian Greenbaum on Porphyry and Astrology

Oct 2021#12744/44 translatedListen

Porphyry's Gods: The Metaphysics and Physics of Divinity

Oct 2021#12637/37 translatedListen

'Poet, Philosopher, Hierophant': Introducing Porphyry of Tyre

Sep 2021#12538/38 translatedListen

Charles M. Stang on the Divine Double in Late Antiquity

Sep 2021#12436/36 translatedListen

Jason BeDuhn on Mani and Manichaeism

Aug 2021#1236/6 translatedListen

Mithras and the Stars: Astral Elements in the Cult of Mithras

Jun 2021#12119/19 translatedListen

Mysteries of the Rock-Born God: The Roman Cult of Mithras

Jun 2021#12041/41 translatedListen

Jean-Marc Narbonne on Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics

May 2021#11931/32 translatedListen

Dylan Burns on Sethian Gnosticism

Apr 2021#11831/32 translatedListen

The Esoteric Plotinus, Part II: Unsaying the Real

Apr 2021#11722/23 translatedListen

Plotinus on Astrology with Marilynn Lawrence

Apr 2021#11622/23 translatedListen

The Esoteric Plotinus, Part I: Philosophic Silence and Esoteric Reading

Mar 2021#11518/19 translatedListen

Jesus the Magician? Interrogating Ancient and Modern Discourses of Ritual Power in the Gospels

Mar 2021#2167/7 translatedListen

Plotinus the Magician? Ritual Practice and Power in Platonism

Mar 2021#11414/14 translatedListen

Mateusz Stróżyński on Spiritual Practices in Augustine

Mar 2021#26517/18 translatedListen

Mateusz Strozynski on Spiritual Practices in Plotinus

Mar 2021#113Listen

We are the One: Plotinus' Participatory Metaphysics

Feb 2021#11224/24 translatedListen

'The Philosopher of our Time': Introducing Plotinus

Jan 2021#11112/12 translatedListen

Matthew Neujahr on the Sibylline Oracles

Jan 2021#11016/16 translatedListen

Christian Bull on the Way of Hermes in Antiquity

Dec 2020#10918/18 translatedListen

Anna van den Kerchove on the Hermetic Way in Antiquity

Nov 2020#10822/22 translatedListen

M. David Litwa on Deification in the Hermetica

Nov 2020#10725/25 translatedListen

Silent Encounters: The Esoteric in the Ancient Hermetica

Nov 2020#10623/23 translatedListen

Other Hermetic Worlds: The Asclepius and Kore Kosmou

Oct 2020#10516/16 translatedListen

Wouter Hanegraaff on the Poimandres

Oct 2020#10415/15 translatedListen

Corpus Hermeticum I, the Poimandres

Oct 2020#10318/18 translatedListen

Professor Christian Wildberg on Emending the Corpus Hermeticum

Sep 2020#10215/15 translatedListen

Brian Copenhaver on the Hermetica

Sep 2020#10124/24 translatedListen

Thrice-Greatest Hermes

Sep 2020#10042/42 translatedListen

Total War: Polemical Esotericism in the Contra Celsum

Sep 2020#9914/14 translatedListen

The True Account: Celsus, Origen, and Ideological Esotericism in Late Antiquity

Aug 2020#9810/10 translatedListen

Aron Reppmann Introduces Origen of Alexandria

Jul 2020#9713/13 translatedListen

From Word to Silence: The Rise of the Apophatic in Late Antiquity

Jun 2020#9642/42 translatedListen

The Third Century and (the Long) Late Antiquity

Jun 2020#958/8 translatedListen

Becoming Gods: Divinisation and Angelomorphic Transformation in Clement

Jun 2020#9470/72 translatedListen

Henny Fiska Hagg on Clement's Apophatic Writing

Jun 2020#9357/57 translatedListen

Lifting the Veil: Esoteric Reading in Clement's Stromateis

Jun 2020#9273/75 translatedListen

Mystagogic Patchwork: Esoteric Writing in Clement's Stromateis

May 2020#9146/46 translatedListen

The Orthodox Gnostic: Introducing Clement of Alexandria

May 2020#9017/17 translatedListen

The Astrology of Vettius Valens

Apr 2020#8910/10 translatedListen

Claudius Ptolemy and the Tetrabiblos

Mar 2020#8811/11 translatedListen

Numerical Mysteries: Nichomachus of Gerasa, Arithmology, and Second-Century Neopythagoreanism

Mar 2020#8719/19 translatedListen

Matteo Martelli on the Pseudo-Democritus

Mar 2020#8611/11 translatedListen

Introducing Alchemy with Lawrence Principe

Feb 2020#8529/29 translatedListen

Other Gospels and Alien Gods: Marcion of Sinope

Feb 2020#8418/18 translatedListen

Geoffrey Smith on Valentinus and Valentinianism

Jan 2020#8312/12 translatedListen

I Got Soul, And I'm Super Bad: Basilides of Alexandria

Jan 2020#8226/26 translatedListen

Warfaring Strangers: Prolegomena to Second-Century Christianity

Jan 2020#8135/35 translatedListen

Michael Williams on the Trouble with 'Gnosticism'

Jan 2020#806/6 translatedListen

Alone with the Alone: Numenius' Metaphysics

Dec 2019#7945/45 translatedListen

Inter philosophos occultorum curiosior: Numenius of Apamea

Dec 2019#7845/45 translatedListen

Korshi Dosoo on the Papyri Graecae Magicae and Western Esotericism

Nov 2019#7716/18 translatedListen

I'm Not Sorry: The Apology of Apuleius

Nov 2019#746/6 translatedListen

Ineffable Initiations and Golden Asses: Apuleius of Madauros and the Metamorphoses

Oct 2019#7315/15 translatedListen

Hypochondria and Epiphany: The Strange Case of Aelius Aristides

Oct 2019#725/5 translatedListen

Daniel Harris-McCoy on the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus

Sep 2019#7137/37 translatedListen

Gil Renberg on Incubation

Sep 2019#7021/21 translatedListen

Plutarch's Myths of Cosmic Ascent

Sep 2019#6929/29 translatedListen

An Erudite Esotericist: Introducing Plutarch of Chaeronea

Aug 2019#6744/44 translatedListen

Astrology, Politics, and Platonism in the Early Empire: The Case of Thrasyllus

Jul 2019#6611/11 translatedListen

Graeme Miles on Apollonius of Tyana

Jul 2019#652/2 translatedListen

The Enigma of Early Christianity

Jun 2019#6451/51 translatedListen

John Dillon on Middle Platonism

Apr 2019#6248/50 translatedListen

The Esoteric and the State in Ancient Rome, Part 2: The State and the Stars

Apr 2019#6121/21 translatedListen

Esoteric Orientalism Part I: Ancient Barbarian Sages

Apr 2019#820/20 translatedListen

The Esoteric and the State in Ancient Rome, Part 1: Late Republican Esotericism

Apr 2019#609/9 translatedListen

Introducing Rome

Mar 2019#597/7 translatedListen

Justin Rogers on Philo in Early Christianity

Mar 2019#5821/21 translatedListen

The Esoteric Philo

Mar 2019#5712/14 translatedListen

The First Western Esotericist: Philo of Alexandria

Mar 2019#5612/14 translatedListen

Frances Flannery on Jewish Dreams in Antiquity

Feb 2019#541/1 translatedListen

Palaces of Heavenly Wisdom: The Hekhalot and Merkavah Traditions

Jan 2019#531/1 translatedListen

Enoch, Apocalyptic, and Abrahamic Faith

Jan 2019#522/2 translatedListen

Enoch and the Book of Watchers

Dec 2018#512/2 translatedListen

John J. Collins on Apocalyptic

Dec 2018#5017/17 translatedListen

The Long Secret History of the Jews Part II: Second-Temple Judaism

Nov 2018#4911/13 translatedListen

The Long Secret History of Judaism, Part I

Nov 2018#1187/89 translatedListen

A Secret History of Secret History, Part II

Nov 2018#237/40 translatedListen

A Secret History of Secret History, Part I

Nov 2018#136/36 translatedListen

Pythagoras Revived: An Anatomy of Neopythagoreanism

Nov 2018#4823/23 translatedListen

The Numbers Don't Lie: Joel Kalvesmaki on 'Pythagorean' Number

Oct 2018#476/6 translatedListen

After Pythagoras

Sep 2018#4660/60 translatedListen

Stoic Physics and Esoteric Metaphysics

Sep 2018#452/2 translatedListen

Esoteric Hermeneutics in Stoicism

Aug 2018#4413/13 translatedListen

Christopher Gill on Stoicism

Aug 2018#4313/13 translatedListen

Chris Brennan on Hellenistic Astrology

Aug 2018#4219/19 translatedListen

Fate and Foreknowledge: Toward Hellenistic Astrology

Aug 2018#4110/10 translatedListen

Wheels Within Wheels: Toward Western Esoteric Cosmology

Aug 2018#4028/28 translatedListen

The Esoteric Aristotle, Part 2

Jul 2018#396/6 translatedListen

The Esoteric Aristotle, Part I

Jul 2018#3830/30 translatedListen

Peter Adamson on Plato

Jul 2018#3728/28 translatedListen

Mystery and Initiation in Plato

May 2018#3457/57 translatedListen

Nowhere to Go But Up: Philosophic Ascent in Plato

May 2018#337/7 translatedListen

Maya Alapin on Mathematical Structures in Plato's Republic

Apr 2018#3250/50 translatedListen

Sun, Line, Cave: Plato's Inner Republic

Apr 2018#3124/24 translatedListen

Otherworlds, Inner Worlds, and Utopias

Mar 2018#299/9 translatedListen

Christopher Gill on Plato's Atlantis

Mar 2018#2813/13 translatedListen

The Birth of the Symbol: Peter Struck on Ancient Greek Esoteric Hermeneutics

Mar 2018#2646/48 translatedListen

The Esoteric Plato

Feb 2018#2531/32 translatedListen

Introducing the Father of Western Esotericism: Plato

Feb 2018#2420/20 translatedListen

Miguel Herrero de Jauregui on Ancient 'Orphism'

Feb 2018#237/7 translatedListen

Severed Heads and Cosmic Eggs: Orpheus and Esotericism

Feb 2018#2219/19 translatedListen

Elementary: Empedocles and the Secret History of the Elements

Jan 2018#212/2 translatedListen

All for One, and One for All: Parmenides of Elea

Jan 2018#201/1 translatedListen

Riddle Me This: Heraclitus of Ephesus

Jan 2018#195/5 translatedListen

Don't Spill the Beans: Pythagorean Silence

Dec 2017#1823/23 translatedListen

The Enigma of Pythagoreanism

Dec 2017#176/6 translatedListen

The Enigma of Pythagoras

Dec 2017#1618/18 translatedListen

For the Love of Wisdom: The Birth of Philosophy

Dec 2017#152/2 translatedListen

Westward Ho! with Matthew Melvin-Koushki

#307157/158 translatedListen

Fake Apostles and Real Christianity: Exploring the 'Pseudo-' in the Pseudo-Dionysios

#30312/12 translatedListen

Unsaying the Divine Darkness: Exploring Dionysian Apophasis and Mysticism

#30235/35 translatedListen

An Apollonian Man: Plato at the End of Antiquity in the Anonymous Prolegomena

#3005/5 translatedListen

Michæl Griffin on the Higher Virtues in Late Platonism

#2974/4 translatedListen

Joseph Sanzo on Magic and Confessional Boundaries in Late Antiquity

#2902/2 translatedListen

Robbert van den Berg on Proclus' Hymns

#28910/10 translatedListen

Stephen Rego on the Nous in Proclus, Part II: Metaphysics and Myth

#28514/14 translatedListen

Edward Butler on Proclus, Part II: On (the Metaphysics of) Polytheism and Monotheism

#2833/3 translatedListen

Edward Butler on Proclus, Part I: 'Henadology'

#28224/24 translatedListen

Ↄ. Martiana Rises to the Occasion

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Poseidonius of Rhodes, Weird Stoicism, and 'Cosmic Religion'

#26661/62 translatedListen

Mateusz Stróżyński on Augustine and Platonism

#26416/17 translatedListen

David Hernández de la Fuente on Nonnus of Panopolis

#25930/30 translatedListen

Into the Darkness with Michæl Motia

#24215/15 translatedListen

Matteo Martelli Perfects the Tincture

#2293/3 translatedListen

Approaches to the Question of Early Christian Esotericism

#2266/6 translatedListen

Into the Light-Worlds with Charles Häberl

#2254/5 translatedListen

The Esoteric New Testament, Part III: John and Apocalypse

#22022/22 translatedListen

The Esoteric New Testament, Part II: Paul and the 'Mysteries'

#2183/3 translatedListen

The Esoteric New Testament, Part I: The Gospel of Mark

#2173/3 translatedListen

Introducing Islam

#20014/14 translatedListen

Charles Haberl on the Mandaeans

#1552/2 translatedListen

The 'Greater Kinds', Souls, and Kosmos: Iamblichus' Philosophy, Part II

#13615/16 translatedListen

Nilufer Akcay on Porphyry's On the Cave of the Nymphs

#1292/2 translatedListen

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III on the 'Mithrasliturgie'

#12238/38 translatedListen

The Chaldaean Oracles and Theurgy

#7642/42 translatedListen

The Chaldaean Oracles

#759/9 translatedListen

Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris

#6830/30 translatedListen

Dylan Burns on the 'Underworld of Platonism'

#6328/29 translatedListen

Plato's Parmenides and Metaphysics

#361/1 translatedListen

Mystery and Immortality: Plato's Phaedo

#3516/16 translatedListen

Introducing Plato's Republic

#3016/16 translatedListen

Plato's Timaeus

#2723/25 translatedListen

Methodologies for the Study of Mysticism

#1419/19 translatedListen

From Mystery to 'Mysticism'

#1328/28 translatedListen

Richard Seaford on the Mysteries

#1226/28 translatedListen

Prayer to the Gods of Night: The Near-Eastern Roots of Astrology

#1023/23 translatedListen

Esoteric Orientalism Part II: The Greeks are Always Children?

#930/30 translatedListen

We're Together In Dreams: Dreaming and Western Esotericism

#720/21 translatedListen

Magicians, Ghosts, Amulets, and Spells: Daniel Ogden on Graeco-Roman Magic

#65/5 translatedListen

Methodologies for the Study of Magic

#51/1 translatedListen

Richard Seaford on the Origins of the Soul

#436/37 translatedListen

Wouter Hanegraaff on Western Esotericism

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So What is Western Esotericism, Anyway?

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