Forwarded from Pagan Revivalism
The Persian Connection
In figuring out how Axiality got into Europe, one factor that is often overlooked are the wars between Axial Persia and Pre-Axial Greece and why Persia resorted to it's agents planted in society.
• Heraclitus: Spoke out against his countrymen trying to regain sovereignty from Persia during the Ionian Revolt.
• Pythagoras: A self-admitted Magi agent sent to Syracuse and who got into local politics on their behalf, he failed but retried by Plato a few decades later.
• Socrates: He did fight with Athens in the Peloponnesian war in his youth, he sided with Persian-allied Sparta in his later years, plato's family and his philosophical acolytes were some of the 30 tyrants of Athens (a persio-spartan puppet government).
• Plato: His family were leaders of the Persian puppet state the 30 tyrants & exiled in 399bc.
• Xenophon: Was a mercenary for the Persian Cyrus the younger, spent a lot of time inside Persia, who later came back to Athens & was exiled when socrates was executed in 399bc.
In figuring out how Axiality got into Europe, one factor that is often overlooked are the wars between Axial Persia and Pre-Axial Greece and why Persia resorted to it's agents planted in society.
• Heraclitus: Spoke out against his countrymen trying to regain sovereignty from Persia during the Ionian Revolt.
• Pythagoras: A self-admitted Magi agent sent to Syracuse and who got into local politics on their behalf, he failed but retried by Plato a few decades later.
• Socrates: He did fight with Athens in the Peloponnesian war in his youth, he sided with Persian-allied Sparta in his later years, plato's family and his philosophical acolytes were some of the 30 tyrants of Athens (a persio-spartan puppet government).
• Plato: His family were leaders of the Persian puppet state the 30 tyrants & exiled in 399bc.
• Xenophon: Was a mercenary for the Persian Cyrus the younger, spent a lot of time inside Persia, who later came back to Athens & was exiled when socrates was executed in 399bc.
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Forwarded from Phil Allitt
The principle of the Ogdoadic Tradition (born from the fusion of pre-Christian traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean with very ancient mystical teachings) appears, among other places, in the symbolism of Byzantine art, in the architecture and ritual of the ancient Order of the Temple, in the design of the Florence Baptistery, in the ritual of baptism in the Middle Ages, and in the literary work of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. This principle was also utilized by Pope Pius XII in his encyclical De Mystici Corporis.