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Members only: Storytime: Reading the Hermetic Kyranides, Part II
We try to explore the Kyranides at large, but end up digging into section ēta of Book I for an hour. We had no choice: there was a hoopoe.
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Members only: Storytime: Reading the Hermetic Kyranides, Part I
We dive into the very complicated layering of texts which makes up the Kyranides, and explore the prologue, written by the unnamed East Roman compiler, which tells us a lot about the `authors' he compiled, and about why their work is esoteric. Featuring Hermes Trismegistos by way of Mesopotamia.
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Sofie Schiødt on Studying Magical Spaces in Ancient Egypt
We speak with Egyptologist Sofie Schiødt about her work-in-progress at Würzburg, exploring the evidence for ancient Egyptian magic in situ. How did the ancient Egyptians relate to the spaces in which they performed rituals? How did the spaces relate to them? She plans to find out.
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William Gallois on the Amuletic Qayrawān in the Colonial Era
William Gallois was looking through hundreds of photographs of the city of Qayrawān, in modern-day Tunisia, from the period of French colonial occupation. He started to notice strange paintings in the backgrounds of these pictures ...
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Episode 168: Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part II: The Emperor’s Religio-Philosophic Project
Our discussion with Jeremy Swist on The Emperor turns metaphysical, theurgic, and religious, as we discuss Julian's incredible synthesis of Iamblichean theology and metaphysics, traditional religions, and politics. Come for the pagan counter-church, stay for the transcendent solar metaphysics.
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Episode 167: Jeremy Swist on the Emperor Julian, Part I: the Political Background and Political Project of the Emperor
Jeremy Swist, specialist on Late Platonism, late antiquity, and the great Julian the Faithful, lays out the political background and political project of The Emperor. Part I of a two-part discussion of late antiquity's greatest statesman. No bias here.
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An introduction to the podcast, discussing briefly what we mean by ‘western esotericism’. This episode also answers the burning question, ‘What’s so “secret” about The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast?’ and features a short quiz to test your knowledge of western esoteric history.
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