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- Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination
- Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Prologue
- 1 Hermetic Spirituality
- 2 Heart of Darkness
- 3 The Presence of Gods
- 4 Children of Hermes
- 5 Through a Glass Darkly
- 6 Healing the Soul
- 7 The Path of Reverence
- 8 Becoming Alive
- 9 The Source
- 10 The Conquest of Time
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index of Texts
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects
5 - Through a Glass Darkly
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 June 2022
- Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination
- Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Prologue
- 1 Hermetic Spirituality
- 2 Heart of Darkness
- 3 The Presence of Gods
- 4 Children of Hermes
- 5 Through a Glass Darkly
- 6 Healing the Soul
- 7 The Path of Reverence
- 8 Becoming Alive
- 9 The Source
- 10 The Conquest of Time
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index of Texts
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects
Summary
Discussion of what happened to the Hermetic literature during the process of scribal transmission in Byzantine culture, and the importance of Gadamerian hermeneutics for mediating between patterns of familiarity and strangeness.
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- Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical ImaginationAltered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity, pp. 119 - 144Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022