/lit/ - Literature

>>15818021
>it's not just "a Greek word''...
it is literally synonymous with sumbolon, Clement of Alexandria also employs the word to describe eleusinian tokens. No christian deny platonic influence on the Areopagita though, are you not aware of someone like Saint Maximus? or Augustine?

>The Proto-mithraic killing of the bull = new age
wew literally pre-historic symbolism is peak greco-roman symbolique? laughable

>coiling serpent
yes it requires books because this is as universal as the one you mentioned above

>cites the hands of sabazios but follows with more speculation on christianity
anon...

nothing of this is a tradition of symbolique, a tradition is a definite circle, you are just wandering aimlessly among some particular pieces. do you think this is comparable to, say, orthodox iconography? go read someone like leonid ouspensky to have an idea of what i mean here. i gave you a notion how close not only the cathedrals are to egyptian temples but their mode of construction being exactly the same, based on the same principles and you come with all this superficial entry-level pre historic symbolism.

>sebayt is an expression of philosophy, theurgy is philosophy
you could not be more wrong. all of this is sacred science, their theurgy (liturgy) expression of their theopoesis and theology. sebayt is basically their ethics which are grounded on theological principles. this is the basics of all traditions, go read some guénon for introduction on this.

>FULLY brought, as in being a perfecting purifying element
what does it even mean? orphic and pythagoreanism were less legitimate than plato's rational inclination?

>>15818052
>Plotinus saw no distinction beween gnostics and christians
more speculation, he was ammonius saccas disciple and had origen as a fellow student of ammonius's, plotinus is not attacking all gnostics but sethianism if i am not wrong. platonic doctrines were used by gnostic sects in their conflict with christians, are you aware of any clash between gnostic and platonists? what about conflicts between gnostic sects and christians? why would plotinus dedicate a whole treatise against gnostics?

>Christianity only exploded in popularity in the fourth century.
started to explode around early 100 AD. Justin, Ignatius, Pope Clement,, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Tertullian, Polycarp, Irinaeus, Papias, Abercius, Valentinus, Eusebius, Saint Anthony. This is like three times the number of main platonists.

>>15818208
Origen was holy, but wrong about some crucial things. In my opinion, even though I like him, we have many other christian platonists and mystics and who remained orthodox (this a great deal of our tradition, even aquinas had as his main influence a christian platonist).

You are just proud and mundane, irredeemable ignoramus. I depart from here.