Acta de Nabarzes
May 2023
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The Nag Hammadi, Hermetic document, The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth. Probably dating to the third century or earlier, this text appears to be an initiation rite into visionary journey: The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth -- The Nag Hammadi Library
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Proposal of a Mithraic ritual based on archaeological remains
Dominique Persoons proposes a reconstruction of Mithraic ritual based on archaeological remains, frescoes, and zodiacal symbolism. He interprets the mithraeum as a liturgical microcosm governing the descent, purification, and ascent of souls. -
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A Man of the Gods and Mysteries. On Vettius Agorius Praetextatus
At Rome’s twilight, amid political upheaval and Christian ascendancy, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus embodied pagan intellect, virtue, and authority across senatorial, military, and mystical spheres. -
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The Golden Chain of Initiation: Orphism, Eleusis, and Mystagogy—A Reinterpretation
By reading Orphic theology together with Eleusinian ritual practice, the mysteries emerge as a structured mystagogy of transformation: a disciplined passage from forgetfulness (Lethe) to knowledge (aletheia), from mortality to participation in the divine. -
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Mithraeum at Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Revisited in February 2026
This article revisits the Mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, one of the most complete and artistically refined Mithraic sanctuaries in the Campanian region, situating it within its archaeological, iconographic, and ritual-historical contexts. -
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De fluviis
Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son. -
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Quaestiones veteris et novi testamenti
Questions on the old and new testaments, 113.11. Ambrosiaster, 5th cent. -
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Thebaid
The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull. -
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Questions on the old and new testaments
Quaestiones veteris et novi testamenti, 113.11. Ambrosiaster, 5th cent. -
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De fluviis
Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis. Goodwin, Ed. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press of John Wilson and son. -
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On the Cave of the Nymphs
Translation and Introductory Essay by Robert Lamberton. Station Hill Press Barrytown, New York 1983.
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