Section outline

  • Special Guest Lecture: April 10, 7pm in OL 224, Prof. Tommaso Ghezzani on “Death, Dream, and Magic: between medicine and psychology in Renaissance philosophy”

    Topics:

    ·      demonology, philosophy, and the soul

    ·      philosophy and magic

    ·      theories of theurgy

    ·      practical theurgy – means and ends

     

    Readings:

    ·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 10

    ·      Mithras Liturgy (PGM IV.475-829)

    ·      8th Book of Moses (PGM XIII 1-343)

    ·      Iamblichus, On the Mysteries, Excerpts

    ·      Theurgy Readings

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    ·      Apuleius, On the God of Socrates

    ·      Plutarch, On the Genius of Socrates

    ·      Plutarch, On the Face in the Moon

    ·      Luck # 51, 59-63, 67-70

    ·      PGM XIII 344-645, 646-734, 735-1077

    ·      Iamblichus, On the Mysteries

    ·      Addey, Divine Inspiration, Possession and Contact with the Gods

    ·      Athanassiadi, Dreams, Theurgy and Freelance Divination

    ·      Edmonds, At the Seizure of the Moon

    ·      Haluszka, Sacred Signified

    ·      Johnston, Rising to the Occasion

    ·      Johnston, Animating Statues

    ·      Johnston, Magic and Theurgy

    ·      Luck, Theurgy and Forms of Worship in Neoplatonism 

    ·      Smith, J.Z., Towards Interpreting Demonic Powers