Charles Haberl on the Mandaeans
We are delighted to speak with Charles Häberl, a man who knows a thing or two about the Mandæans, an utterly-fascinating, living religious community autochthonous to the Iraqi and Iranian marshlands, but now largely living in a global diaspora since the region’s destabilisation under the U.S.
Primary Sources
Corpus Hermeticum and Plotinus' Enneads (Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.9.9)
This rare collection documents the struggle of the human soul to recognize its divine origin while trapped in the sensible world. It presents the Hermetic tradition as an intuitive, performative realization of truth, contrasted against the systematic, dialectical path of Plotinus. The text argues th
The Enneads
The Enneads represents the pinnacle of Neoplatonic thought, a monumental synthesis where logic meets mysticism. Through the lens of Marsilio Ficino’s Renaissance commentary, Plotinus’s work is presented as a 'philosophical bait' designed to lead the intellectual mind toward religious faith through p