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Strategies of the Esoteric in the Hellenism of the Emperor Julian: Exclusion and Pluralism in a Late-Antique Polytheism

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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Julian's Hellenism

Julian's Hellenism is a mobilization of this whole complex actually partly identitarian political idea of Greekness or Hellenic culture as a whole but fashioning it into something new. It utilized some of the innovative weapons from the arsenal of Christianity for self-identification and exclusion. These were framed as so often with totally contemporary esoteric movements as a return to the old ways. Each people each nation natio in latin or ganos ethnos in greek each of these peoples is assigned an ethnic god which is an emanation of the first cause further elaborated with divine hypotheses a la yamlicos. Julian will also sort of counter the christian narrative of a universal savior god by

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