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.
Podcast Episodes Themed "Hoopoe"
Storytime: Reading Macrobius’ Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, Part I
We begin to read through Macrobius' Commentary with an eye for the esoteric. A whole world of literary/discursive theory opens before our eyes, wherein fictions hide the truth, the truth may be ineffable, and dreams are a weird kind of esoteric text. So what does that make a fictional dream which tells the genuine truth?
Episode 78: Inter philosophos occultorum curiosior: Numenius of Apamea
We investigate the esoteric practice of one of Middle Platonism's most enigmatic figures, the great Numenius of Apamea.
