Theurgia, or The Egyptian Mysteries, by Iamblichos

Iamblichus, Alexander Wilder · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 281 pages

A page-image scan of the complete 1915 edition of Theurgia, or The Egyptian Mysteries by Iamblichos, in the translation of Alexander Wilder, M.D., F.A.S., published at Greenwich, Connecticut by the American School of Metaphysics. The work is the reply of Abammon the Teacher to the letter of Porphyry to Anebo, together with solutions of the questions it contained. Wilder states his aim on the title page: to give the original, the whole original and nothing but the original, in good readable English.

The eighteen chapters run from Porphyry's letter and Abammon's reply through the superior races and their manifestations; rites, symbols and offerings; the order exhibited at the rites; the origin of the art of divination and its universality; demons; the powers invoked; the criticism of the notions of priests; the mystic rites and the conditions for successful results; the origin of Egyptian symbolism; the personal demon; and eudaemonia, or true success. Being a scan of the printed pages rather than typeset text, this is by a wide margin the largest file in the series.

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