The Chaldaean Oracles
Historical edition · 1908 · 27,106 words
Revelatory fragments on divine intellect, fire, the soul, and its return to its source. Preserved largely through quotations in later writers, the Oracles became important to the religious philosophy of late antiquity.
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How Hellenism philosophized the ancient wisdom of Eg5^t, we have already shown at great length in our volumes on Thrice-greatest Hermes. The Chaldaean Oracles are a parallel endeavour, on a smaller scale, to philosophize the wisdom of Chaldaea. In the Trismegistic writings, moreover, we had to deal with a series of prose treatises, whereas in our Oracles we are to treat of the fragments of a single mystery-poem, which may with advantage be compared with the cycle of Jewish and Christian pseudepigraphic poems known as the Sibylline Oracles.
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