期刊名称：Eye of the Heart : A Journal of Traditional Wisdom
印刷版ISSN：1835-4416
出版年度：2008
卷号：2008
期号：2
出版社：La Trobe University
摘要：The contemporary metaphysical understanding of symbol—as opposed
to the neo-classical conception of mimēsis or “imitation”—is inherited
from the Neoplatonic theory of symbolic language. According to this
theory the symbol corresponds to that which, by definition, is beyond
every representation, “showing” the bodiless by means of bodies.
Moreover, the symbol is anagogic, serving as a ladder for ascent to the
divine. Our present task is to investigate the Neoplatonic notion of the
symbolic in the context of theurgy and in relation to the ancient
Egyptian theological doctrines, which were inherited, at least to a
certain extent, by the later Pythagorean and Platonic traditions.
In Neoplatonism, divine symbols have a transformative and
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