breathing-in-gilded-dust:I made this for Hypatia!! Who I may or may not be adding in to my hero/ance
breathing-in-gilded-dust:I made this for Hypatia!! Who I may or may not be adding in to my hero/ancestor/etc veneration? I’m trying to find out what her religious beliefs are so I don’t disrespect that. I know she was Greek/Egyptian and pagan by Christian standards, but that doesn’t tell me much. Hypatia was a neoplatonist and may have practiced theurgy. You’ll want to read about Proclus, Porphyry of Tyre, and Iamblichus. (I find Porphyry to be the most accessible out of the three, but YMMV. He advocated vegetarianism/ veganism, which some people deny is essential to neoplatonism.) An interesting article you can read at JSTOR with a free account: Theurgy: Rituals of Unification in the Neoplatonism of Iamblichus by Gregory Shaw Edward Butler explains neoplatonsim well, but be aware that his politics seem to lean to the right. @heliosthedemiurge has some introductory articles on neoplatonism with bibliographies (X and X) -- source link
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