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413 830, 30, 246 56 Lucian Alexander the Pseudoprophet 23, 297 The Lovers of Lies 10 13, 195 97; 14 17, 146 49; 17, 218; 21, 81; 34 36, 74 Menippus, 74 The Ship, 74 Lucretius, On Nature 4. This is the first time that this has been posited, as most historians have previously said that the point in which the daimon becomes demon is with the writing of Xenocrates in the 4th century B.
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Arcana Mundi : Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds : a Collection of Ancient Texts
Exploring Ancient Magic 1I. MAGIC Texts - II. MIRACLES - III. DAEMONOLOGY IV. DIVINATION - V. ASTROLOGY - VI. ALCHEMY - The Survival of Pagan Magic 457 Psychoactive Substances in Religion and Magic 479 - Vocabula Magica 493 According to Lynn Thorndike, magic includes ‘‘all occult arts and sciences, superstitions and folklore.’ In truth, however, this is not a satisfactory definition, for magic is but one of the occult sciences. Moreover, Thorndike uses the vague term superstition, which characterizes the attitudes of a supposedly more enlightened age and civilization. Finally, he includes folklore, which in itself is not an occult art, although folktales are often about witches, sorcerers, and the like. In the present context, I would define magic as a technique grounded in a belief in powers located in the human soul and in the universe outside ourselves, a technique that aims at imposing the human will on nature or on human beings by using supersensual powers. Ultimately, it may be a belief in the unlimited powers of the soul. The multitude of powers can, perhaps, be reduced to the notion of power, or mana. The Greek equivalents, found in Hellenistic texts, are dynamis ‘power’, charis ‘grace’, and arete ‘effectiveness’. This magical mana is freely available; all it needs is a vessel or a channel, and the true magus is such a medium—even his garments or something he touches can receive and store the mana. In a polytheistic society such as Greece or Rome, it was only natural that the one Power took on the forms and names of many powers—gods, daemons, heroes, disembodied souls—who were willing, or even eager, to work for the magus. When the magus summoned these powers by means of his magical knowledge and technique, he could either help and heal or destroy and kill. //Olympians, and one of them, Hermes, equips Odysseus with a magical antidote, the mysterious herb moly, and provides the necessary instructions. It is clear that witchcraft was part of Greek folklore from the earliest times. Some of Homer’s material may go back to the Bronze Age, Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease 1–4 Jones , Theophrastus (c. 370–285 B.C.) studied with Aristotle, whom he succeeded as head of the school in Athens. In addition to a large number of specialized philosophic, scientific, and critical works. Aesop’’ is the semilegendary author of a fairly large number of prose tales. This tale about a sorceress is preserved in a Byzantine collection, but it must be older (probably fifth–fourth century B.C.), f the agyrtai and manteis that Plato (Republic 364b6–c2, Laws 909b2–4) attacks. Paradoxically, Plato’s teacher, Socrates, was also condemned to death for introducing ‘‘religious innovations,’’ but he was hardly the type of agyrtes or magos, and in his case the charge was a pretext. pp AUTHORS Achilles Tatius, Adventures of Leucippe and Clitopho 1.3.2, 292 Acts of Peter 32, 8 Acts of the Apostles 1:3, 182; 5:1–11, 467; 8:9–21, 8, 64; 11:27, 297; 13:1, 297; 13:6–12, 16, 89n75, 468; 15:32, 297; 18:1–6, 467; 19.13–20, 16, 470; 19:18–20, 47–48, 470, 475n4 Aelius Aristides, Sacred Orations, 48.30– 35, 193–94; 48.74–78, 194–95 Aeschines, Against Timarchus 23–24 D., 482 Aeschylus —Agamemnon 316n7, 336; 178, 289; 975, 289; 1203√. 285 —Oresteia, 209 —Persians 607–99, 212, 230–32 Aesop, Fable 56 Perry, 102 Alexander Romance b, Bergson 1.3.8, 25n26 Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman History Bks. 14–31, 458; 29.1.25–32, 23, 50, 314 Anthologia Palatina 7.330, 210; 7.657.11– 12, 21 Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.1635–90, 103–4 Apuleius —Apologia sive de Magia 25–43, 149–53; 27, 72; 31, 72; 32, 483; 42, 313; 42–53, 10; 43, 483 —De Genio Socratis, 233; 154, 216 —Florida 19, 189–90 —Metamorphoses 1.10, 72; 2.20–21, 72; 2.21–30, 266–71; 3.21–28, 153–57; 11.4, 483 Aristotle —De Philosophia fr. 12a Ross, 288, 290 —Historia Animalium Bks. 7–10, 43 —Parva Naturalia, 290–91 Arnobius, Adversus Gentiles 1.43, 63 Artemidorus, Onirocritica (Art of Judging Dreams) Bk. 1 dedication, Athansius, Life of St. Anthony 9–10, 465, 476n3 Augustine —Contra Academicos 1.7.19–21, 75 —De Civitate Dei 5.1–7, 378; 5.3, 386n19; 22.8, 180–81530 Index of Ancient Sources Augustine (continued ) —De Genesi ad Litteram 12.17, 288; 12.18, 79 Carmen adversus Paganos, 476n14 Cato, De Agricultura 160, 109 2 Chronicles 1:3–12, 288 Chrysippus, Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta (SVF) 2.338 von Arnim, 207 Cicero —De Divinatione, —De Fato, 286, 350—De Natura Deorum, 286 —De Republica Bk. 6, 400; 6.12, 406; 6.16, 400 —Tusculanae Disputationes, 263Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis 6.3, 64 Pseudo-Clement —Homiliae 2.26, 89n76 —Recognitiones 2.15, 65, 66, 89n76 Comarius, 2:278–87 and 3:289–99 Berthelot, 448–54 1 Corinthians 1:14, 43, 345–47; 5:1–5, 468; 12:10, 84; 12:28, 297 Corpus Hermeticum 2.353√. 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Download Free PDF View PDFABSTRACT FROM DAIMON TO DEMON: THE EVOLUTION OF THE DEMON FROM ANTIQUITY TO EARLY CHRISTIANITY One of the most fascinating entities of religious thought is the demon, which is still pervasive in both religious and popular culture today. The demon is something that is present not just in various religious texts, but is also a staple of the modern horror film. The question at hand in this thesis is whether or not the demon was always considered to be synonymous with evil. The demon itself has existed in religious culture and magic practice since antiquity, but most scholars tend to either ignore the entity, or conflate it with ghosts or minor gods. This thesis traces the evolution that the daimon takes to eventually become the demon we know today. At the same time, it postulates that the most important change to take place occurred with Augustine of Hippo’s The City of God, which ultimately gives the demon the negative characteristics that it still has today. This is the first time that this has been posited, as most historians have previously said that the point in which the daimon becomes demon is with the writing of Xenocrates in the 4th century B.C.E. By looking at both the literature of the Greek and Roman worlds, spells and incantations that were used in antiquity, and also texts relating to Judaism and Christianity, there is a sense that the evolution culminates in the work of Augustine, and that this is the most momentous change for the entity. This is significant, as it illustrates the influence of Christianity on the religious cultures of antiquity, and how monotheism played a large role in the evolution of the demon. As the demon is something that is prevalent still today, not only in our own popular culture but also in religious realms as well, it is important to understand the background and history of the entity, and not merely hold the assumption that it did not “exist” prior to Christianity.
Download Free PDF View PDFThe Cambridge History of Sixteenth Century Music, eds I. Fenlon and R. Wistreich
In this chapter I discuss how Renaissance music was infused with magical ideas about the power of sound to connect the human soul with the cosmos. These ideas derived from Platonic and neoplatonic philosophy, rediscovered in the 15th century by Marsilio Ficino. His writings on the role of the performer as a 'medium' between heaven and earth were taken up by 16th century composers in a variety of ways, including the idea of the 'Platonic frenzies' of the inspired musician. The chapter concludes with a case study of Orlando di Lasso's 'Prophetiae Sybillarum', as a magical incantation designed to change the consciousness of the listener.
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