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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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The Dispensation of Divine Inspiration

The yamblikian sage operates more or less in private hanging out in his estates with the chosen companions and discoursing on philosophy. It's unclear to how a truly julianic priesthood might have eventually functioned but it's fairly certain that julian as pontifex maximus the greatest priest was intent on implementing a culture of theorgic ritual on an empire-wide basis. As we said the taps of divine inspiration are not closed but they are emphatically not open to all of mankind equally oracles dreams and inspiration enthuziasmos are the raw materials of for julian's picture of how absolute knowledge is conveyed to some of mankind.

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