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The Chaldean Oracles: A different perspective

A theological experiment in Neo-Platonic realism, theology of arithmetic, and teleological metamorphoses of powers in the divine, terrestrial, and chthonic worlds across the cosmic symphony.

Mateusz Zalewski
Mateusz Zalewski

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Introductio

 

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Some places to visit

  • Mithraeum of Nush-i Jan

    The Nushijan Mithraeum testifies to the worship of Mithra in the region since before the Zoroastrian reform.

     
  • Mithraeum I of Stockstadt

    The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.

     
  • Mithréum de Septeuil

    In the second half of the 4th century, a Mithraic temple was established within an earlier spring sanctuary at Septeuil, where the cult of the nymphs and Mithraic practices appear to have coexisted.

     
  • Mithraeum of Inveresk

    The Mithraeum of Inveresk, south of Musselburgh, East Lothian, is the first found in Scotland, and the earliest securely dated example from Britain.

     

Sententia

Guest insights

Dominique PERSOONS

Dear Amicus: as early as the 3rd century AD, Plotinus wrote that the soul was divided into a lower and a higher part: ".…

on Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026

 

Dominique PERSOONS

It is ironic that the logo of "the new mithraeum" represents the Platonic cosmic chiasma

on Mitreo di Santa Prisca

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Ave, dear Andreu, Christianity is contemporary with Mithras and indeed borrows the Platonic chiasma…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

Dominique PERSOONS

On the basilica of Autun (1148) the journey is reversed: souls ascend to heaven by the Moon and…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

The New Mithraeum

Salve Isabelle, and thank you for pointing this out. You were right: the reference to Ad Enum was…

on Mithraeum of Inveresk

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Of course, the Moon’s axis passes through Cancer (summer solstice, the days shorten)…

on Tauroctony relief from Naples

 

Israel Campos

A revision of this: [ref:6a071346a6001]

on Tauroctony from Santiponce

 

Dominique PERSOONS

Vae tibi, qui sapientiam Magistri ignoras! Vere, ingenium Platonis in transpositione Babyloniorum…

on a post

 
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