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

     

    Greek Readings: Proclus, On the Sacred Art; PGM IV.475-829; PGM XIII 1-343

     

    Readings:

    ·       Mithras Liturgy (PGM IV.475-829)

    ·       Proclus, On the Sacred Art

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

    ·       Iamblichus, On the Mysteries (excerpts I.9-15, II.11, IV.1-13, V.23-26, VI.5-7, VIII.7-8)

    ·       Theurgy Readings

    ·       Luck # 51, 59-63, 67-70

     

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

    ·       Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 10

    ·       Johnston, Magic and Theurgy

    ·       Luck, Theurgy and Forms of Worship in Neoplatonism  (or T-D?)

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

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    ·       Apuleius, On the God of Socrates

    ·       Plutarch, On the Genius of Socrates

    ·       Plutarch, On the Face in the Moon

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

    ·       Athanassiadi, Dreams, Theurgy and Freelance Divination

    ·       Edmonds, At the Seizure of the Moon

    ·       Haluszka, Sacred Signified

    ·       Johnston, Rising to the Occasion

    ·       Johnston, Animating Statues