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UNDER this general title is now being published a series of small volumes, drawn from or based upon, the mystic, theosophic and gnostic writings of the ancients, so as to make more easily available for the ever-widening circle of those who love such things, some echoes of the mystic experiences and initiatory lore of their spiritual ancestry. There are many who love the life of the spirit, and who long for the light of gnostic illumination, but who are not sufficiently equipped to study the writings of the ancients at first hand, or to follow unaided the labours of scholars. These little volumes are therefore intended to serve as introduction to the study of the more difficult literature of the subject; and it is hoped that at the same time they may become for some, who have, as yet, not even heard of the Gnosis, stepping-stones to higher things.

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CHALDÆAN ORACLES

Translated and Commented

by

G. R. S. Mead

[Echoes from the Gnōsis, VIII-IX.]

Originally published as Echoes from the Gnosis, vols. VIII & IX, London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1908.

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ECHOES FROM THE GNŌSIS

UNDER this general title is now being published a series of small volumes, drawn from or based upon, the mystic, theosophic and gnostic writings of the ancients, so as to make more easily available for the ever-widening circle of those who love such things, some echoes of the mystic experiences and initiatory lore of their spiritual ancestry. There are many who love the life of the spirit, and who long for the light of gnostic illumination, but who are not sufficiently equipped to study the writings of the ancients at first hand, or to follow unaided the labours of scholars. These little volumes are therefore intended to serve as introduction to the study of the more difficult literature of the subject; and it is hoped that at the same time they may become for some, who have, as yet, not even heard of the Gnosis, stepping-stones to higher things.1

G. R. S. M.

1.[The series ran to eleven volumes in total:

I: The Gnosis of the Mind, in which Mead expostulates his own concept of “The Gnōsis,”

II: The Hymns of Hermes, liturgical / poetic passages from Hermetic writings.

III: The Vision of Aridæus, a vision of the afterlife from a work of Plutarch. IV: The Hymn of Jesus, extracted from the “Acts of John.”

V: The Mysteries of Mithra, a brief survey of what was then known on the subject of Mithraism.

VI: A Mithriac (sic) Ritual; a working-over of the so-called “Mithras Liturgy” from the Paris Magic Papyrus (PGM IV).

VII: The Gnostic Crucifixion, also from the “Acts of John.” VIII & IX: Chaldæan Oracles.

X: The Hymn of the Robe of Glory (a.k.a. “The Hymn of the Pearl”), a poem which had gotten attached to some texts of the “Acts of Thomas.”

XI: The Wedding Song of Wisdom (I have not seen this one).

In most of these, Mead’s commentaries form the bulk of the page count compared to actual translated texts. In 2006 a collected edition was issued by the Theosophical publisher, Quest Books.]

INTRODUCTION

THE CHALDÆAN ORACLES (Lógia, Oracula, Responsa) are a product of Hellenistic (and more precisely Alexandrian) syncretism.

The Alexandrian religio-philosophy proper was a blend of Orphic, Pythagoræan, Platonic and Stoic elements, and constituted the the theology of the learned in the great city which had gradually, from the third century B.C., made herself the centre of Hellenic culture.

In her intimate contact with the Orient, the mind of Greece freely united with the mysterious and enthusiastic cults and wisdom-traditions of the other nations, and became very industrious in “philosophizing” their mythology, theosophy and gnosis, their oracular utterances, symbolic apocalypses and initiatory lore.

The two nations that made the deepest impression on the Greek thinkers were Egypt and Chaldæa; these they regarded as the possessors of the most ancient wisdomtraditions.

How Hellenism philosophized the ancient wisdom of Egypt, we have already shown at great length in our volumes on Thrice-greatest Hermes. The Chaldæan Oracles are a parallel endeavour, on a smaller scale, to philosophize the wisdom of Chaldæa. In the Trismegistic writings,2 moreover, we had to deal with a series of prose treatises, whereas in our Oracles we are to treat of the fragments of a single mystery-poem, which may with advantage be compared with the cycle of Jewish and Christian pseudoepigraphic poems known as the Sibylline Oracles.

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