Description
Hellenic Tantra argues that scholarship on later Platonism has been misled by a dualist worldview. The theurgic Platonists in the school of Iamblichus (4th century CE) did not ascend out of their bodies to be united with the gods – as is the common belief – but allowed the gods to descend into their bodies. By comparing embodied deification in theurgy to Tantric traditions of embodied deification, Gregory Shaw allows us to understand the power and charisma of the last Platonic teachers of the ancient world. Hellenic Tantra reveals a living Platonism that has been hidden from us.
Although not published by the Prometheus Trust, we are including Hellenic Tantra in the books available for sale from our website because of its important contribution to the cause of Platonic philosophy as a living tradition of inner growth.
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