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

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

Jul 19, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

Julian and Hellenism

4min

The Absolute Truth in Late Antiquity

3min

The Rise of Political Strike Religious Absolutism in Roman Politics

3min

The Sloppiness of Early Christianity

3min

The History of Catholicism in Late Antiquity

3min

The Origins of Hellenism

3min

The Irony of Yudai's Moss

2min

The Complexity of Hellenism in Christianity

3min

10.

The Origins of Hellenism

3min

11.

Julian's Hellenism

5min

12.

The Exclusion of Christians From the Initiator Temple

3min

13.

The Origins of Julian's Hellenism

5min

14.

The Rise and Fall of Myth in Antiquity

1min

15.

The Essence of Rome

4min

16.

The Dispensation of Divine Inspiration

3min

17.

Theorems of Julian's Priestly Elite

3min

18.

Julian's Hymn to the Sun

3min

19.

The Politics of Esotericism

3min

We discuss the dynamics of Julian's esoteric religious/political formulation of Hellenism, and reflect on some of the very strange things that happen when esoteric religions like Iamblichean theurgy (and Christianity) are taken out of the small conclave and projected onto the corridors of power.