Demon est Deus Inversus:

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" Demon est Deus Inversus: "
Gregory Shaw

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1067207
Doc. No	:	LA110836
Call No	:	‭10.1163/2451859X-12340010‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Gregory Shaw
Title & Author	:	Demon est Deus Inversus: [Article] : Honoring the Daemonic in Iamblichean Theurgy\ Gregory Shaw
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	1/1-2
Page No	:	177–195
Abstract	:	Iamblichus’s doctrine that the immortal soul becomes mortal is puzzling for Platonic scholars. According to Iamblichus, the embodied soul not only becomes mortal; as human, it also becomes “alienated” (allotriōthen) from divinity. Iamblichus maintains that the alienation and mortality of the soul are effected by daemons that channel the soul’s universal and immortal identity into a singular and mortal self. Yet, while daemons alienate the soul from divinity they also outline the path to recover it. Iamblichus maintains that daemons unfold the will of the Demiurge into material manifestation and thus reveal its divine signatures (sunthēmata) in nature. According to Iamblichus’s theurgical itinerary, the human soul—materialized, alienated, and mortal—must learn to embrace its alienated and mortal condition as a form of demiurgic activity. By ritually entering this demiurgy the soul transforms its alienation and mortality into theurgy. The embodied soul becomes an icon of divinity.
Descriptor	:	alienation
Descriptor	:	Biblical Studies
Descriptor	:	daemons
Descriptor	:	embodiment
Descriptor	:	Gnosticism Manichaeism
Descriptor	:	theurgy
Descriptor	:	Titans
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/2451859X-12340010‬