Thomas James

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"But it's a beautiful thing to strive after the beautiful, and to suffer whatever we have to suffer along the way." Plato, Phaedrus, 274b

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@BrotherAugusti2 @gwyrain It does actually.

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@F_Gardner_1 @Know_More_News @bronzeagemantis He’s an Orthodox apologist. He lies as easily as he breathes.

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Pagan revivalism isn’t about going back in time or restoring the original conditions of religious worship. It is, primarily, about participation in the gods’s eternal providence. Identity and continuity between contemporary and ancient forms of paganism subsist not in cosmetic resemblances, but in the common regard for the gods.

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@howlinghowler_ Yes.

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@DanielAJones93 @PunishedAbammon Much of what is criticized as “Platonism” is just thinking logically about things.

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@edtarnowski West End (Best End)?

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@philoantonio @EPButler 😍

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@romanhelmetguy Eusebius, Augustine, and Cyril certainly didn’t believe this.

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@ExotericDago More like Romani

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@Heliotrophy “We are completely defined not necessarily by Greece and Rome themselves but by our reflexive rediscovery of them and our *aspirations* towards them.”

This is a great point.

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@goodmaxxedfyre @ExotericDago I did

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@ScottMGreer James G. Blaine’s mansion in Dupont has a Le Pain Quotidien in it.

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@bennni_boi 🐐

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"Hence we must consider how one might be liberated and set free from these bonds [of necessity and fate]. There is, indeed, no way other than the knowledge of the gods." Iamblichus, DM, X.5

"This is the only salvation for man: knowledge of God. This is the ascent to the highest abode of the gods." CH, X.15

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@ancient_satyr Corpus Hermeticum

[Thomas James @ThomJamesF]

"Hence we must consider how one might be liberated and set free from these bonds [of necessity and fate]. There is, indeed, no way other than the knowledge of the gods." Iamblichus, DM, X.5

"This is the only salvation for man: knowledge of God. This is the ascent to the highest abode of the gods." CH, X.15

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@True_Zenith @EClaussen "Ye are gods" Psalm 82:6

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@BasilianThought

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@Michaeldudufudu Gooner hands typed this.