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The Chaldean Oracles by Julianus

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The Chaldean Oracles have survived as fragmentary texts from the 2nd century AD, and consist mainly of Hellenistic commentary on a single mystery-poem (which may have been compilations from several oracular sources, considering the random subject changes) that was believed to have originated in Chaldea (Babylonia). They appear to be a syncretic combination of neo-Platonic elements with others that were Persian or Babylonian in origin. Later neo-Platonists, such as Proclus and Iamblichus, rated them highly. The 4th-century Emperor Julian suggests in his Hymn to the Magna Mater that he was an initiate of the God of the Seven Rays, and was an adept of its teachings. When Christian Church Fathers or other Late Antiquity writers credit "the Chaldeans", they are probably referring to this tradition.


In 356 BC, during the era of Alexander the Great, the Chaldaeans claimed that their astrology had existed for some 473,000 years!

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  • Can there be a metaphysical cosmology?

    YES!

    Linking Pythagoras, Platonic, QaBaLaH, neo-Platonic traditions AND the I Ching?

    Along with modern quantum musings?

    YES!!

    The clue is in the gematria value for QBLH and the fine structure constant.

    '137' is a whole number that allows us to entertain the same thoughts as our ancestors.

  • chaldean with ch as in chutzpah

  • @krelllabs Dr Pierre Grimes

  • Who is the presenter, please?

  • Very informative.

    Thanks bro.

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