
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)
Julian's Hymn to the Sun
Julian is propounding a kind of counter overarching god despite his protestations that every ethnos has to have its own ethnic god they better get with haleos mithros or else escapias long associated with ideas of initiated salvation as the writings of aliased aristides show. It's in julian's hymn to the sun that we see his most consistent attempt to frame a unified Hellenistic religion and it's going to look pretty weird and wonderful if he had succeeded.
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