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The True Account: Celsus, Origen, and Ideological Esotericism in Late Antiquity
An almost-unknown Middle Platonist philosopher named Celsus wrote the first-known anti-Christian polemical pamphlet some time in the later second cen…
6 years ago
Aron Reppmann Introduces Origen of Alexandria
Professor Aron Reppmann introduces the life, thought, and esotericism of Origen of Alexandria, one of the greatest church-fathers, Platonist theologi…
6 years, 1 month ago
From Word to Silence: The Rise of the Apophatic in Late Antiquity
As antiquity progressed, certain esoteric religious thinkers and philosophers came increasingly to doubt whether the nature of the highest reality co…
6 years, 2 months ago
The Third Century and (the Long) Late Antiquity
As the podcast enters the third century, we discuss the parameters of ‘late antiquity’, and what makes something ‘late-antique’. Special bonus materi…
6 years, 2 months ago
Becoming Gods: Divinisation and Angelomorphic Transformation in Clement
We discuss Clement's endgame, where the Gnostic encounters god face-to-face after a lengthy transformative evolution into higher and higher spiritual…
6 years, 2 months ago
Henny Fiskå Hägg on Clement’s Apophatic Writing
We speak with Professor Henny Fiskå Hägg about the apophatic theory and writing-practice of Clement of Alexandria, one of antiquity's finest exponent…
6 years, 2 months ago
Lifting the Veil: Esoteric Reading in Clement’s Stromateis
Clement stays esoteric. We examine the esoteric wisdom-lineages constructed by Clement, how he reads them, in the context of how he hides his reading…
6 years, 2 months ago
Mystagogic Patchwork: Esoteric Writing in Clement’s Stromateis
We explore the esoteric writing methodologies of Clement's Stromateis – the innovative ‘public secrecy’, the reasons for Clement's esotericism, and t…
6 years, 2 months ago
The Orthodox Gnostic: Introducing Clement of Alexandria
We introduce the life and thought of Orthodox Christianity's favourite in-house Gnostic, the great Clement of Alexandria. Come for the philosophical,…
6 years, 3 months ago
The Astrology of Vettius Valens
We examine the life, work, and legacy of Vettius Valens, second-century Roman astrologer and author of the Anthologies, the most hard-core practical…
6 years, 4 months ago