Infinite Fire Webinar IV - Wouter J. Hanegraaff on Platonic Orientalism

[@joshuasheets9236]

Thanks! I’m uneducated and reading “Western Esotericism: A Guide For The Perplexed” so I was very pleased to see the author has a video explaining something I found perplexing in his book! lol :)

[@davidasleep]

Wonderful!!! Thank you

[@arttutorials8163]

Amazing lecture! Thank you so much for creating such a great educational resource, and making it accessible and free!

[@TheModernHermeticist]

Rewatching

[@prospero6337]

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[@prospero6337]

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[@prospero6337]

So glad these guys exist....supergood :>

[@TheYoungIdealist]

These lectures are brilliant!

[@renep.1435]

Awesome, really awesome. Thank you very much, prof. Hanegraaff.

[@TheSecretmuseum]

Great thanks for these unique and essential perspectives.

[@JEKAZOL]

Pure gold.

[@paltieri11]

Excellent!

[@dansel5276]

For anther view the work of Plato look up Peter Kingsley.

[@Exiro]

Thanks. Are these series a good representation of the subjects covered at an MA degree in Western Esotericism?

[@martin36369]

Zoroaster as the origin of this wisdom means magic becomes more important, but surely if it was Moses it still puts magic in a central position, as Moses was also seen by many as a magician, albeit via God's grace

[@marc6161]

Thank you! great listen. Any suggestions of an English translation for the 900 thesis by pico?

[@EmbassyoftheFreeMind]

Hi Marc, there is an English translation by S.A. Farmer, 'Syncretism in the West: Pico's 900 Theses (1486): The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems' (Tempe, Arizona: MRTS, 1998), 598 pages. It's unfortunately not available online but we did find this one in Latin to practice a bit... :-) www.esotericarchives.com/pico/conclus.htm . Good luck and hope it helps!

[@marinakralik1977]

❤

[@strapazoot7141]

Religion is secularised metaphysics. Plato only dealt in hardcore metaphysics.The understanding of the unmanifesteds Brahman, the Absolute, the pure and formless ground of being from which creation and manifestation arise. As such, the unmanifested is free from change, the unmoved mover. It also, necessarily, cannot be explained or comprehended in terms of any manifest reality . It can only be reached with apophatic methodology.

[@BigBunnyLove]

Mushrooms 🍄 can help here ;)

[@mariakatariina8751]

Mary the Theotokos was of the Greek Suomi; as was Jesus Christ. INRIX