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" Taking the Shape of the Gods "


Document Type : AL
Record Number : 1064695
Doc. No : LA108324
Call No : ‭10.1163/15700593-01501009‬
Language of Document : English
Main Entry : Gregory Shaw
Title & Author : Taking the Shape of the Gods [Article]\ Gregory Shaw
Publication Statement : Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical : Aries
Date : 2015
Volume/ Issue Number : 15/1
Page No : 136–169
Abstract : Scholarship in the last few decades has corrected mischaracterizations of the Hermetica and Iamblichean theurgy as examples of the decline of Hellenic thinking, but questions remain of how to understand them, particularly since Iamblichus claims to follow the teachings of Hermes. This essay attempts to shed light on hermetic rebirth and the immortalization of the soul described in CH XIII and NH VI.6 by examining them according to the principles of Iamblichean theurgy. I argue that hermetic immortalization and rebirth did not culminate in an escape from the body and the world but were realized—to the contrary—as a divine and demiurgic descent into the world and one’s body. While this essay owes a great debt to Garth Fowden’s The Egyptian Hermes, my reading of hermetic rebirth does not follow his dualist understanding of hermetic metaphysics and soteriology. The culmination of both theurgic and hermetic mystagogy is non-dual: deification is realized in the world. Scholarship in the last few decades has corrected mischaracterizations of the Hermetica and Iamblichean theurgy as examples of the decline of Hellenic thinking, but questions remain of how to understand them, particularly since Iamblichus claims to follow the teachings of Hermes. This essay attempts to shed light on hermetic rebirth and the immortalization of the soul described in CH XIII and NH VI.6 by examining them according to the principles of Iamblichean theurgy. I argue that hermetic immortalization and rebirth did not culminate in an escape from the body and the world but were realized—to the contrary—as a divine and demiurgic descent into the world and one’s body. While this essay owes a great debt to Garth Fowden’s The Egyptian Hermes, my reading of hermetic rebirth does not follow his dualist understanding of hermetic metaphysics and soteriology. The culmination of both theurgic and hermetic mystagogy is non-dual: deification is realized in the world.
Descriptor : demiurgy
Descriptor : dualism and non-dualism
Descriptor : esoteric
Descriptor : Hermes
Descriptor : Iamblichus
Descriptor : theurgy
Location & Call number : ‭10.1163/15700593-01501009‬
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