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Iamblichus on the mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians

Also known as De mysteriis; De mysteriis. English; De mysteriis. French

by Iamblichus, Porphyry (Contributor), Thomas Taylor (Translator), Iamblichus, approximately 250-approximately 330|* Iamblichus, approximately 250-approximately 330 Iamblichus, approximately 250-approximately 330. De mysteriis. English Iamblichus, Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon, N. Festa Iamblichus & Édouard Des Places

  • First published:
  • 15th century
  • Languages: English, French, German, Ancient Greek, Greek, Italian, Latin
  • Content type: Primary source
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"Iamblichus on the mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians" attributed to Iamblichus is a work of Neoplatonic philosophy primarily concerned with ritual and theurgy. Written as a response to his teacher Porphyry's criticisms, it defends polytheistic cult practices through philosophical argument. Spanning ten books, it explores topics from the soul and gods to sacrifice, Egyptian symbolism, and personal daemons. The work represents a pivotal moment in ancient thought's attempt to justify religious ritual through speculative philosophy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual, Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Demonology, angelology, and possession, and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from harvard, internet-archive, online-books-page, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Occult sciences”, “occultism”, “Occultism”, and 1 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “occult” in the subject metadata, “Occult sciences” in the subject metadata, “Occultism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “supernatural”· via Project Gutenberg
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, online-books-page, openlibrary-historical, project-gutenberg, and wellcome matched “Demonology” and “demonology”. Retained metadata contains “Demonology” in the subject metadata.

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    • “demonology”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “demonology”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “Demonology”· in subject
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Mysticism”. Retained metadata contains “Mysticism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Mysticism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Mysticism”· via Open Library
    • “Mysticism”· in subject
  • Ancient religions, animism, and ritual

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Mysteries, Religious”, “Neoplatonism”, and “Paganism”. Retained metadata contains “Gods” in the description, “Mysteries, Religious” in the subject metadata, “Neoplatonism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “Mysteries, Religious”· via Open Library
    • “Neoplatonism”· via Open Library
    • “Paganism”· via Open Library
    • “Gods”· in description
    • “Mysteries, Religious”· in subject

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Editions

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Les mystères d'Egypte

Harvard LibraryCloud bibliographic record

xxx, 237 pages ; 23 cm.

1993Les Belles LettresFrench, Ancient Greek
  • 9782251470016
  • 2251470018
Catalog record

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham for the translator, 1821

1821———Source listed online copy

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

second edition; London: B. Dobell, and Reeves and Turner, 1895

1895London : Bertram Dobell & Reeves and Turner; London, Bertram Dobell & Reeves and TurnerEnglish
  • 9780790579795
  • 0790579790
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  • 990044091360203941
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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: Internet Archive
  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Contributors: Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305|* Porphyry
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Open Library reports 15 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): BL610 .J32 1821
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): BL610 .J32 1895
  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham for the translator, 1821
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: second edition; London: B. Dobell, and Reeves and Turner, 1895
  • Translators: Taylor, Thomas
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