Rangar Cline

Study of angeloi worship in a Graeco-Roman context, outside of the Judeo-Christian belief-system framork. Excellent resource for comparative theology, musings on heroization and apotheosation of human beings post-mortm into male and female angels. There is a short description of the process of extinguishing this angelological gnosis, when pagan conceptual tools were banned by gradual exclusion of human participation in the Divine, in order to consolidate exclusive Church power for such dealings. Reading this book along with pagan theology-theurgy, Orphic Hymns, Eleusinian Golden tablets and other splendid resources is extremely enriching as a specific case-study filling in the blanks. Perhaps the dissemination of these ideas was transmitted not merely culturally, horizontally, but vertically, as deified mortals disembodied were no longer limited to territorial dissemination of their luminous being and hence such 'revelations' were common in the ancient world as witnessed by mortals, as they are today - for some. Hail the Caduceus-Rod holders! Hail the Trice-Great Ones!… (mais)

Study of angeloi worship in a Graeco-Roman context, outside of the Judeo-Christian belief-system framork. Excellent resource for comparative theology, musings on heroization and apotheosation of human beings post-mortm into male and female angels. There is a short description of the process of extinguishing this angelological gnosis, when pagan conceptual tools were banned by gradual exclusion of human participation in the Divine, in order to consolidate exclusive Church power for such dealings. Reading this book along with pagan theology-theurgy, Orphic Hymns, Eleusinian Golden tablets and other splendid resources is extremely enriching as a specific case-study filling in the blanks. Perhaps the dissemination of these ideas was transmitted not merely culturally, horizontally, but vertically, as deified mortals disembodied were no longer limited to territorial dissemination of their luminous being and hence such 'revelations' were common in the ancient world as witnessed by mortals, as they are today - for some. Hail the Caduceus-Rod holders! Hail the Trice-Great Ones!… (mais)

Study of angeloi worship in a Graeco-Roman context, outside of the Judeo-Christian belief-system framork. Excellent resource for comparative theology, musings on heroization and apotheosation of human beings post-mortm into male and female angels. There is a short description of the process of extinguishing this angelological gnosis, when pagan conceptual tools were banned by gradual exclusion of human participation in the Divine, in order to consolidate exclusive Church power for such dealings. Reading this book along with pagan theology-theurgy, Orphic Hymns, Eleusinian Golden tablets and other splendid resources is extremely enriching as a specific case-study filling in the blanks. Perhaps the dissemination of these ideas was transmitted not merely culturally, horizontally, but vertically, as deified mortals disembodied were no longer limited to territorial dissemination of their luminous being and hence such 'revelations' were common in the ancient world as witnessed by mortals, as they are today - for some. Hail the Caduceus-Rod holders! Hail the Trice-Great Ones!… (mais)