Corpus Hermeticum XVI: The Definitions of Asclepius unto King Ammon · 6 of 6 · tr. G.R.S. Mead
Section 1f
(xiv.) 7.
274:4 The two irrational parts, “passion” and “desire” (θυμὸς and ἐπιθυμία).
274:5 The soul.
275:1 This Erōs is the lower love ( cf.
C.
H.
, i.
18: “love, the cause of death”), not the Divine Love who inspires Hermes in “The Perfect Sermon” and who is mentioned C.
H.
, xviii.
14.
275:2 διοίκησιν.
275:3 Or, Fate; cf.
C.
H.
, i.
9; and P.
S.
A.
, xix.
275:4 Or, Intelligible Cosmos.
276:1 Cf.
P.
S.
A.
, iv.
1 n.; and xix.
276:2 Or army, or hierarchy.
Compare the “soldier” degree of the Mithriaca.
276:3 Cf.
C.
H.
, x.
(xi.) 22; and P.
S.
A.
, v.
1.
276:4 Cf.
C.
H.
, xiv.
(xv.), 7 and 5.
276:5 See Commentary to Frag.
iv.
(Lact., D.
I.
, ii.
15).
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Ladder Of Lovesoteriology
Diotima's staged ascent from love of beautiful bodies → beautiful souls → beautiful pursuits → beautiful knowledge → Beauty itself; the canonical scala amoris that grounds Plotinus's On the Beautiful and Bruno's Eroici Furori — distinct from generic spiritual_ascent in that eros is the specific motive force.
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Iamblichean ritual practice that engages the gods directly through consecrated material symbols and actions, on the premise that divine power descends into properly prepared matter — distinct from philosophical contemplation alone.
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Division of the human being into three principles: spirit (pneuma), soul (psyche), and body/matter (hyle or soma).
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