APOLLONIUS OF TYANA - Couverture souple

Mead, George Robert Stowe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1604595396 ISBN 13 : 9781604595390

Editeur : A & D Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Apollonius of Tyana was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. He was roughly a contemporary of Jesus. At the age of 20 Apollonius began a five year silence, after the completion of this term of silence he traveled to Mesopotamia and Iran. After his death his name remained famous among philosophers and occultists. To the student of the origins of Christianity there is naturally no period of Western history of greater interest and importance than the first century of our era; and yet how little comparatively is known about it of a really definite and reliable nature. If it be a subject of lasting regret that no non-Christian writer of the first century had sufficient intuition of the future to record even a line of information concerning the birth and growth of what was to be the religion of the Western world, equally disappointing is it to find so little definite information of the general social and religious conditions of the time.

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À propos de l'auteur

George Robert Stowe Mead was an English scholar, translator, editor, and esoteric writer closely associated with the Theosophical movement and the study of ancient religion, Gnosticism, Hermetic literature, and early Christian origins. Born in 1863, Mead became known for works that attempted to recover and explain the religious and philosophical currents of the ancient world for modern readers. His scholarship often moved across the boundaries between classical studies, comparative religion, mysticism, and esoteric interpretation, making him an important figure for readers interested in the transmission of ancient wisdom traditions into modern spiritual thought.Mead's writings include studies of Gnosticism, Hermetic texts, early Christianity, Apollonius of Tyana, and the broader religious imagination of late antiquity. While modern scholarship has often revised or challenged aspects of early esoteric interpretation, Mead remains historically important as a serious populariser of ancient spiritual literature and as a bridge between nineteenth-century occult revival, Theosophy, classical learning, and the study of alternative religious history. His work continues to appeal to readers of mysticism, ancient philosophy, esoteric Christianity, comparative religion, and the hidden or marginal traditions of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: A & D Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1604595396
• ISBN 13: 9781604595390
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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