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Esoteric Orientalism Part I: Ancient Barbarian Sages

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

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The Origins of the Sciences in the Ancient Near East

Platinus, Yamblokos and Proclus stand at the very beginning of the Western esoteric traditions proper. Platonic Orientalism then is a shorthand way of referring to the use of the ideological heft of the ancient barbarian peoples of the Eastern Mediterranean by ancient Greek Platonist philosophers. The true account of reality goes further back and may be found in the lore of the ancient sages who predate the Greek Dark Age and Iron Age civilization more generally.

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