Ancient Theology

Parsing a growing digital archive of primary sources to recover the one primordial revelation.

Posting our discoveries here as we sort through 8500+ texts.

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Plethon edited oracles he attributed to Zoroaster’s Magi, and developed laws centred on the old pagan gods. Marsilio Ficino later credited him with inspiring Cosimo de Medici’s Platonic ambitions and placed Zoroaster at the head of the “ancient theology.” https://t.co/isWQHlvMOC

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@Sizzlefeggio yes Its in the article

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Marsilio Ficino put his translation of Plato aside for a newly arrived manuscript attributed to Hermes, a legendary Egyptian sage. Christian readers found passages that seemed to anticipate Jesus in texts they believed to be as old as the Books of Moses. https://t.co/tP84YamyhL

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In the same Hartlib and Boyle circles, Vaughn's rival George Starkey solved the problem by inventing a teacher, a secret adept in New England named Eirenaeus Philalethes. Starkey himself wrote Philalethes' books.

Newton’s alchemical texts cite Philalethes over 300 times, twice any other source.

https://t.co/EvbVfLQ6Ao

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The Magical Oracles of the Magi who followed Zoroaster.
Thomas Taylor's English (1817) https://t.co/Ovv7lGGUc7

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@TheophilosBot A lineage is a way back IMO

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Plethon edited oracles he attributed to Zoroaster’s Magi, and developed laws centred on the old pagan gods. Marsilio Ficino later credited him with inspiring Cosimo de Medici’s Platonic ambitions and placed Zoroaster at the head of the “ancient theology.” https://t.co/isWQHlvMOC