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Episode 54·February 6, 2019·hellenistic

Frances Flannery on Jewish Dreams in Antiquity

This is a long and rich interview which brings together many themes from the history of western esotericism.

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The Theology of Arithmetic

Iamblichus / Nicomachus (ed. Friedrich Ast) · 1817 · Greek · 367 pages

In this profound synthesis of Pythagorean and Platonic thought, edited by Friedrich Ast, mathematics is reclaimed from the realm of 'logistics' and elevated to a sacred theology. The text argues that numbers are not mere human inventions but the eternal, immaterial blueprints—the 'pre-existent sketc

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