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Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part II: The Emperor’s Religio-Philosophic Project

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

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The Pen Is My Dear Than the Sword, According to Julian

He believed that Christianity was really a form of mental disorder because he believed that we in our souls have a natural gnosis, knowledge of the gods existence. So how does he deal with the Christians? Well through toleration. He realized that diocletian and Decius and Valerian and other emperors who attempted to persecute violently the Christians did not succeed.

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