Alexandria 3: The Journal of Western Cosmological Traditions [Paperback]

David Fideler (Editor)

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Publication Date: January 1995

The ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria was a meeting place for the great thinkers,, mystics, and scientists of the day. Home of the first universal library, the Museum at Alexandria was an international center of scholarship. Now, the Alexandria Society brings you into that heady, intoxicating sphere of ideas and revelations- presents the best writing available on the Western esoteric traditions keeping alive the spirit of philosophical brotherhood that set ancient Alexandria apart.

Product Details

• Paperback: 490 pages
• Publisher: Phanes Press (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933999542
• ISBN-13: 978-0933999541
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #926,901 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Western Esotericism, August 19, 2003

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This review is from: Alexandria 3: The Journal of Western Cosmological Traditions (Paperback)

Essential contributions to the study of Western Esotericism. Alexandria issue #3 covers:
Introduction: Education and the Signs of the Times -- David Fideler
Harmony Made Visible -- Michael S. Schneider
The Alchemy of Art -- Arthur Versluis
Ecopsychology in Theory and Practice: A Report on the 1994 Conference -- Melissa Nelson
A Note Against the Aristotelians -- Peter Ramus
The Divine Sophia: Isis, Achamoth, and Ialdabaoth -- Lee Irwin
Ruminations on All and Everything -- Peter Russell

Clement of Alexandria's Letter to Theodore Containing Fragments of a Secret Gospel of Mark
The Strange Case of the Secret Gospel According to Mark: How Morton Smith's Discovery of a Lost Letter of Clement of Alexandria Scandalized Biblical Scholarship -- Shawn Eyer
Knowledge, Reason, and Ethics: A Neoplatonic Perspective -- Michael Hornum
Delphi's Enduring Message: On the Need for Oracular Communications in Psychological Life -- Dianne Skafte
Two Lyrics -- Christopher Reynolds
Lyric on a Renaissance Woodcut -- David Fideler
Anatolius: On the Decad -- Robin Waterfield (translator)
Two Letters of Marsilio Ficino
Proclus's Hymn to the One -- Michael Hornum (translator)
Cosmologies -- Dana Wilde
The Invisible College -- Anthony Rooley
Reviving the Academies of the Muses -- David Fideler
Plato, Athena, and Saint Katherine: The Education of the Philosopher -- Christine Rhone
The School of Wisdom -- Jane Leade
Education in the New World Order: A Trialogue -- Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, and Rupert Sheldrake
The Teaching Mission of Socrates -- Ignacio L. Götz
A Note on Myth, the Mysteries, and Teaching in Plato's Republic -- Ignacio L. Götz
The Tarocchi del Mantegna: An Overview of the Engravings
Reflections on the Tarocchi of Mantegna -- Oliver T. Perrin
Speaking in Hieroglyphics -- Peter Lamborn Wilson
Three Exemplars of the Esoteric Tradition in the Renaissance -- Karen-Claire Voss
Ships with Wings
Apuleius in the Underworld: A Footnote to Metamorphoses 11 -- John Carey
Three Homeric Hymns -- Bruce MacLennan (translator)
Astronomy, Contemplation, and the Objects of Celestial Desire -- David Fideler
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Western Esotericism, August 19, 2003

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Michael Hoffman (Egodeath.com) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alexandria 3: The Journal of Western Cosmological Traditions (Paperback)

Essential contributions to the study of Western Esotericism. Alexandria issue #3 covers:
Introduction: Education and the Signs of the Times -- David Fideler
Harmony Made Visible -- Michael S. Schneider
The Alchemy of Art -- Arthur Versluis
Ecopsychology in Theory and Practice: A Report on the 1994 Conference -- Melissa Nelson
A Note Against the Aristotelians -- Peter Ramus
The Divine Sophia: Isis, Achamoth, and Ialdabaoth -- Lee Irwin
Ruminations on All and Everything -- Peter Russell

Clement of Alexandria's Letter to Theodore Containing Fragments of a Secret Gospel of Mark
The Strange Case of the Secret Gospel According to Mark: How Morton Smith's Discovery of a Lost Letter of Clement of Alexandria Scandalized Biblical Scholarship -- Shawn Eyer
Knowledge, Reason, and Ethics: A Neoplatonic Perspective -- Michael Hornum
Delphi's Enduring Message: On the Need for Oracular Communications in Psychological Life -- Dianne Skafte
Two Lyrics -- Christopher Reynolds
Lyric on a Renaissance Woodcut -- David Fideler
Anatolius: On the Decad -- Robin Waterfield (translator)
Two Letters of Marsilio Ficino
Proclus's Hymn to the One -- Michael Hornum (translator)
Cosmologies -- Dana Wilde
The Invisible College -- Anthony Rooley
Reviving the Academies of the Muses -- David Fideler
Plato, Athena, and Saint Katherine: The Education of the Philosopher -- Christine Rhone
The School of Wisdom -- Jane Leade
Education in the New World Order: A Trialogue -- Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, and Rupert Sheldrake
The Teaching Mission of Socrates -- Ignacio L. Götz
A Note on Myth, the Mysteries, and Teaching in Plato's Republic -- Ignacio L. Götz
The Tarocchi del Mantegna: An Overview of the Engravings
Reflections on the Tarocchi of Mantegna -- Oliver T. Perrin
Speaking in Hieroglyphics -- Peter Lamborn Wilson
Three Exemplars of the Esoteric Tradition in the Renaissance -- Karen-Claire Voss
Ships with Wings
Apuleius in the Underworld: A Footnote to Metamorphoses 11 -- John Carey
Three Homeric Hymns -- Bruce MacLennan (translator)
Astronomy, Contemplation, and the Objects of Celestial Desire -- David Fideler
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