Abammon, 3, 7–9, 23, 52 n.6, 108,
Ares, * * 60
260
Aristotle
Abaris, 221
doctrines of, 6, 18, 29–30, 79–
aether, 103, 131, 250–52
80
agalmata, * * 100, 194, 210
on identity, 115
Amelius, 81–82, 231–32
influence on Iamblichus, 106,
amethekton, * * 73
119, 190
anamnesis, * * 26, 185, 197, 217, 225
on the soul, 90
*anatrope * of soul, 11, 141, 147,
on Unmoved Movers, 84–85
164–65, 179, 270
arithmoi, * * 38, 229–30, 235, 268–69
denied, 12, 12–14
*See also * number
necessary for cosmos, 141
Armstrong, A.H., 28 n. 11, 104,
Ancients, 69, 79, 130, 250
108, 123
Anebo, 7, 148
arrheton, * * 37, 206, 236, 254
angel, 63, 74, 85, 131, 208, 250
ascent of soul. *See * soul, ascent of
animals, 52,–53, 167, 187
asema onomata, * * 125, 201, 206,
Anteros, * * 142–43
- *See also * names; *nomina *
aoristas duas, * * 33
barbara
Apamea, 7
Assyrians, 202, 205, 234
apeiron, * * 38, * * 126, 132, 180, 228, astrology, 48 n. 19, 225, 242. See
241–42, 253. *See also * unlimited
also mathematike
apotheosis, 26, 59, 75, 72, 163–65,
Athanassiadi, Polymnia, 7 n.13
168–69
Attis, 252–53
and the sun, 252, 256
augoeides, * * 57, 119, 246, 249, 251.
archai, * * 32–35, 158
*See also * body, of light; *ochema; *
gods as, 150
pneuma
One and Many as, 35–36
Aurelius, Marcus, 102
reason and life as, 136
autoeides, * * 102, 102 n.14
archon, * * 88
autokinesis, * * 103–4
arche, 140, 238–40, 261–62
autos, * * 108, 115. *See also * self one of the soul as, 137. See
autotelos, * * 83
*also * one of the soul
and *telos * of divinities, 83, 99–
Ballew, Lynne, 100 n.6
101, 101 n. 8
barbarians, 4, 220
293
bel stone, 54
choristos, * * 153–54, 159, 194
blood sacrifice. *See * sacrifice
Christian, 1–3, 266
*bodhisattva, * 163 n. 1, 171
Christianity, 4, 28
body, 56, 238
Church, 7, 271
celestial, 153
circular, 99–101, 103 130, 194–95.
context of self-alienation, 114
*See also * sphere
divination and, 92
cock, 54, 187
immortal, 59
Colophon, 96, 260
inferior to first causes, 85
continuity ( sunecheia), * * 28, 88,
of light, 58, 129, 221–22, 247–50
152, 155, 227
mathematical, 268
Corbin, Henry, 26 n. 6
as prison, 29, 40–41
Corpus Hermeticum, * * 203, 254
reveals activity of the soul, 51,
cosmic gods. *See * gods, cosmic
83, 89, 94, 166
cosmogenesis, 113, 124, 115
as sacrificial altar, 230
apotheosis and, 124, 270
spherical, 58
arithmogenesis and, 34
*bomiskos, * 230, 233 n.30
as divine activity, 10, 51, 177
borderland, 38, 72–73
Pythagorean, 234
Branchidae, 96, 260
reflected in theurgy, 24, 124,
breath, 249–51
141, 148
Bregman, Jay, 2 n.5
*sunthemata * and, 183–84
Breton, Stanislas, 51
cosmos, 5, 10–12, 150
Brown, Peter, 28 n.11
circular, 99
Burkert, Walter, 222, 227, 230, 236
deification of souls and, 5, 20
devalued, 12–13
Calvenus Taurus, 94, 162
divine, 13, 16–17
castration, 252
prior to chaos, 38
catharsis, 41 n. 2, 59
short-circuited, 16
celestial gods, 73, 83
split, 13
Chaldean Oracles, 5 n. 10, 44–45,
as temple, 56, 124
51, 102, 105, 130, 160, 183, 186,
*Cratylus, * 179
203, 235, 249–50, 268
Cremer, Friedrich, 45, 105, 107
the *De Mysteriis * and, 46
n.30, 186
importance for Iamblichus,
108
daimons, 45–46, 52, 74, 88–89,
Changing Self, The, 110–14
149, 178–79
characteres, * * 95, 193
agents of Demiurge, 44, 148–
*chi *( X), * * 193
52
choice, 76. See also prohairesis
as evil, 15, 150, 244
chora, 29
gods and, 158
294
Index
in Golden Age, 9
demonic
as guardians, 243–44
outside the soul, 11–13
laws of nature and, 52–53, 73–
projected on cosmos, 13, 15,
74, 150
267
personal, 243–44
in the soul, 17
powers of matter, 45
demons, 11 n.27, 12, 151
rhythms of cosmos and, 10
*De Mysteriis, * 3
receptacles of salvation, 53
contextual shifts in, 50
tie souls to bodies, 44
Egyptian theology, 23–24
superior to man, 148
on matter, 19
three kinds of, 159
opening remarks to Porphyry,
Damascius, 37, 267
45
definition of soul, 115–17
philosophical apology for
on the gods, 155–57
ritual, 18, 122, 126, 147, 259
on mathematical figures, 226–
Plato and the Egyptians, 6–7
27
the soul, 19
*De Abstinentia. * See On the
theory of divination in, 7
Abstinence of Animal Food
title of, 7–8
De Anima (Iamblichus), 27, 78,
Derchain, Philip, 52 n. 6, 108
80, 90, 102
des Places, Edouard, 3 n. 6, 136
on liberated souls, 130
*De Vita Pythagorica *(Iambli-
De Anima Commenteria, In
chus), 101, 220
(Priscianus), 110–114
Dillon, John, 31 n. 1, 36, 81–82
decad, 255. See also tetraktus
divination, 221, 231, 234
Delphi, 96, 99, 260
divine element in, 138
Demiurge, 17, 29, 34, 38–39, 42–
divinization as, 260
43, 68
false, 139
function of, 25
not human, 91–92, 138–40,
matter and, 31, 33
261–62
the One and, 128
numbers in, 221–22
orders chaos, 38–39
Dodds, E.R., 27, 97
participation in, 25, 61, 113
dream, 90–91, 99
pre-essential, 127
dualism, 12, 45–46, 121–23, 236
primary, secondary, tertiary,
caused by matter, 122
128 n.9
and mediation, 121
theurgic symbols and, 124, 186
dunamis, * * 80, 84–87
as the true sun, 254
of daimons and heroes, 151
will of, 131–32, 141, 255
as mean, 112
demiurgy, 17, 24–26, 113, 200,
dyad, 38, 72
253–54
mother of numbers, 38
295
ecstasy ( ekstasis), * * 263–65
epitedeitotes, 93
theurgic, 265
appearance of divinities, 246
two kinds of, 264
component of every theurgy,
ego, 103
95–96
Egypt, 24, 268–69
*eromenon. * See sunthoma, erome-
Egyptian, 3, 23, 108, 268
*non * as
astrology, 225
eros, * * 140–42. See also philia
doctrine, 32
of the One, 104–5, 173, 185
eikones, * * 184
as will of the Demiurge, 140
hieratic ascent, 129
eternal ratios, 22, 56, 110, 116, 163.
names, 201–3
See also logoi; * * ratios
symbols, 23, 193–96
Eunapius, 92 n. 2, 98, 142–43
theology, 23–24, 31
evil, 10–12, 17, 35–37, 45–46, 94,
wisdom, 24
123, 190
Eliade, Mircea, 227–28, 248
gods not source of, 61
embodiment, 9, 25–26, 141–42
no principle of, 36
chaos to cosmos, 62
origin of, 46
consecrated, 56
Plotinian view of, 75
essential to cosmogenesis, 27,
place of, 35
141–42
ex opere operato, * * 95
loss of sphere in, 99–102
exothen, * * 99, 107, 139, 152, 265, 269
pivot of demiurgic eros, 141
Plato on, 106
fate, 47–49, 156, 166, 174, 180–81,
problem of, 89, 107, 147
- *See also * gods, cosmic/
purpose of, 94, 166
material
of stars, 57
Father, 31. *See also * Demiurge
encosmic gods. *See * gods, cosmic
Festugière, A.-J., 27, 33 n. 6
energeia, * * 80, 87–88, 115
Ficino, Marsilio, 7, 196
actualization of form, 95–96
fifth body, 250. *See also * aether
of daimons and heroes, 151
fire, 43, 91
of divine image in soul, 126
in theurgic sacrifice, 169, 255
of mortals and gods, 81
flow, 179, 239–40
of numbers, 225, 229
Forms, 26, 33, 125, 212–13
reveals ousia, * * 110–11, 246–47
matter and, 29
of stars, 99
*sunthemata * as, 183
Enneads, * * 70–71, 75
foundation, 63, 171
entelecheia, * * 80, 90, 106
in the Forms, 233
enthusiasm, 90, 99, 266
lacked by Porphyry, 176
ephesis, * * 136, 138, 141, 190
in material theurgy, 194, 232
epistrophe, * * 131
Fowden, Garth, 32 n.2
296
Index
Gaiser, Konrad, 240
unity of, 154, 158
gematria, 232
vowels and, 206–8
genesis, * * 47, 240–42
goes, * * 97. *See also * sorcerer geometry, 206, 224–26, 238–40,
Golden Age, 9, 18
251
Good, 136, 185, 250
Gersh, Stephen, 30 n. 15
Guerard, Christian, 109 n.42
gnosis, * * 105, 135. *See also * knowledge
Hadot, Pierre, 26 n.6, 116–17 n.22
human and divine, 137
heat, 246, 249, 253
Gnosticism, 28, 68, 209–10
heauto, * * 16
Gnostics, 12–13, 46
Hecate, 46
anthropomorphize gods, 126
heimarmene, * * 47
confusion of ontological lev-
Helios, 54, 188, 195, 198–200, 228,
els, 72–73
250–54, 269. *See also * sun
reversal of Platonic myth, 67–
heliotrope, 54
68
Hellenes, 2–3, 9. *See also * pagans
view of the Demiurge, 69
Hellenic, 6
gods, 1–3, 31, 43
helmsman, 134–35
appearance of, 246–47
henosis, * * 57, 109, 123, 127, 131
celestial, 154, 187
of Porphyry, 176
cosmic/material, 99, 154, 157,
Heraclitus, 184
168–70, 174, 180–82, 228
Hermes, 31–32, 188, 254–55
creative energy of, 23
heroes, 63, 88–89, 150–51
daimons and, 15, 158–59
agents of epistrophe, * * 151
defined, 86–88
*heteros. See * other
descent of, 210
*heterotes. See * otherness
foundation of human society,
hieratike techne, * * 9, 209
10
homeopathy, 52–53, 193
guardians of the soul, 242–45
homoiosis theo, * * 6, 16
hypercosmic/immaterial, 99,
homologization to the cosmos,
135, 153, 157, 170–71, 174, 180–
11, 134, 138, 175–76, 249, 255,268
82, 228
hule, * * 29, 33, 46, 50. *See also * mat-ineffable power of, 6
ter; receptacle
liberated, 156–58
visionary, 56
light of, 56–57, 152, 246–48, 251
*huparxis, * 116, 135
in matter, 52, 55, 152
as one of the soul, 135
order of, 147–48, 154–60, 162,
*hupodoche. See * receptacle
192, 196
Hymn to the Mother of the Gods,
presence of, 91, 97, 246
252–53
revealed in souls, 94
hymns, 195–96, 206, 255
297
hypercosmic gods. *See * gods,
Introduction to the Arithmetic of
hypercosmic
Nicomachus, * * 33–34
invocation, 125, 199–200, 244
Iamblichus
irrational diagonal, 236–37
barbarian ancestry, 4, 20, 105
contradictions in, 114–17
Jewish myths, 67
critique of Porphyry, 147, 163,
Julian, 2, 250, 252–54
175–76, 196–97, 202–3, 267
on fate, 36, 47–49
knowledge, 55–56, 93, 108, 121,
disagreement with Gnostics,
124, 135–36. See also gnosis
68
foreknowledge and, 261–62
hagiographical image of, 142–
kosmo, * * 10
43
Kronos, * * 9, 60, 156
hierophant and philosopher, 6
*kuklo. See * circular
interest in ritual, 105–6
Kundalini, 249 n.12
as an Oriental, 33, 105
philosophical distinctions of,
law of sacrifice. *See * sacrifice,
109, 123
law of
on Plotinus, 69–70, 75, 78–85,
*Laws *(Plato), 3–4, 9–10, 14
106, 267
Lewy, Hans, 5 n.10, 45–46, 68,
on prayer, 125–26
101, 105
Pythagorean theories of, 212,
Libanius, 1–2, 5
220–22, 235, 241, 268, 271
liberated gods. *See * gods, liber-
revision of Plato’s doctrines,
ated
13, 16, 25, 71, 92, 106, 119,
limit, 37, 126, 132, 180, 228, 238–
122–23, 164–65, 267–68
40, 245, 253–54. See also peras
revision of popular divina-
line, 235, 238–39
tion, 259–64
lion, 54, 188
savior of Hellenic world, 2, 28,
Lloyd, A.C., 13, 157 n.4
266
localized self, 49, 60. See also
on the soul, 104, 106–7, 118,
*anatrope * of soul
121–22, 140, 162–63, 165–68,
locative, 10–12
171–72
logia, * * 45, 268
subordinates philosophy to
logismos, * * 118–20, 134
theurgy, 109
logoi, * * 40, 79. *See also * eternal Syrian school of, 2, 42, 193
ratios; ratios
illumination, 54, 71
cause of suffering, 40, 131
imagination, 246–49, 264. See
of Demiurge, 81, 218–19
also phantasia
of life, 151
immortality, 117–18
of soul, 85, 243
298
Index
in theurgy, 131, 186
tion; soul, mean; sacrifice, as a
logos, 5
mean
generated by *alogos * power,
law of, 156
236–47
liberated gods as, 154
lotus, 194
soul as, 79, 86
Lowry, J.M.P., 17 n.41, 109 n. 44
mediation, 28, 74, 80, 88, 192. See
*also * mean
Macedonius, 47
melodies, 55, 101, 196–97, 207
madness, 259–60. *See also * enthu-
Merlan, Philip, 36, 217
siasm; mantike
*metaichmion. See * borderland
magic, 8, 42, 105–6
metechomenon, * * 73
Majercik, Ruth, 183
metechon, * * 73
mandala, 227–28
*metra aidia. See * eternal ratios
mantike, * * 138, 259. *See also * divin-Mithras Liturgy, 209, 250
ation
Moderatus of Gades, 33, 216
*exemplum * of theurgy, 259–60
monad, 31, 33, 37–38, 72, 206
defined, 261–62
mortal. *See * soul, mortal
purpose of, 262
mud, 63
mantis, * * 260, 263, 265
music, 196–98
Many, 35–37, 72
mathematika, * * 233. See also * arith-names, 55, 125. See also asema* * moi; numbers
onomata; nomina barbara; * *mathematike, 242. See also astrol-sunthemata, * names as
ogy
bodies of the gods, 204
matter, 19, 31, 34–35, 42, 44–45.
*sunthemata * of, * * 198–200, 201–11
See also hule
nature, 32, 36, 43, 125, 166–67,
cosmogenesis and, 29
229
creation of, 31
ecstasy and, 263
divine and sensible, 32
Neoplatonism, 105, 110. See also
estranged from the gods, 189
Platonism
evil, 12, 32, 124
Aristotle in, 80
index of soul, 47, 63
complexity of, 128, 131
principium individuationis, * * 84
hieratic, 187, 236
problem of, 28
of Julian, 195
pure, 63
principles of, 58, 95, 213
represented by “mud,” 194–95
on *prohodos * and epistrophe, * *
soul’s use of, 25–26
131, 236
suffering of, 170
the sun in, 250, 254
two kinds, 27–28, 51–52
yoga and 249
mean, 35, 72–73. *See also * media-
Nicomachus, 33, 206
299
conventional and natural
worship of, 176
numbers, 224
one of the soul, 105, 122–23, 125–
noesis, * * 55, 99, 105, 137
26, 134–37
nomina barbara, * * 203. See also
contains multiplicity, 137–38
asema onomata; * * names
eros and, 140–41
Nous, * * 15, 73, 75, 166–68, 194, 218, terms for, 138
269
On General Mathematical Sci-
and the soul, 76–78, 86, 103–4,
ence, * * 35–37, 216
107, 139
On Physical Number, * * 229
assimilation to, 99
On the Abstinence of AnimaI
fall from, 100, 106, 264
Food, * * 15, 147–48
numbers, 34–35, 268. See also
On the Hieratic Art, * * 54, 187–88
arithmoi
ontological order, 72, 83, 134, 159
conventional and natural, 224,
optimism, 27, 41
230–32
Oriental, 8, 33
derive from monad and dyad,
other ( heteros), * * 86 n. 19, 89, 114, 34
122, 139, 219
ideal, 84
authoritative, 108, 268–69
unifying and theurgic, 223–24
otherness ( heterotes), * * 82, 86, 114, Numenius, 32, 68, 78, 130
120
ousia, * * 78–80, 87, 110–11, 134. See ochema, * * 57 n.12, 58, 118, 218. See
*also * soul, *ousia * of
also pneuma
of daimons and heroes, 151–52
body as, 92
of soul, 81–82, 112–13
immortal, 141
luminous, 131, 247
pagan, 1–2, 266. *See also * Hellenes
soul as, 100–101
paideia, * * 2, 6, 10, 11–13
old ways, 1, 3, 19, 268–69
paradox, 57, 107. *See also * soul,
Olympiodorus, 163–64
paradox
O’Meara, Dominic J., 229–30
Pearson, Birger, 209–10
One, 23, 34–35, 104, 108–9, 126,
pebbles, 54
267
pentad, 223–24
action of, 232
peras, 37, 126, 132, 180, 228, 240–
contains multiplicity, 32, 136
41, 245, 253–54. *See also * limit
as decad, 255
pessimism, 12, 41, 204
gods and, 154
Petrément, Simone, 121
*henosis * and, 109
Phaedo, * * 26–27, 41, 56, 61–63, 67,
ineffable, 37, 122
251
is not “one,” 35, 128
Phaedrus, * * 27–28, 67, 131, 259–60
silence of, 211
and apotheosis, 75
300
Index
influence on Iamblichus, 134
gods of, 25
phallus, 190
Iamblichean, 7, 20, 122, 268
*phantasia. See also * imagination
Plotinian, 74
of numbers, 232
Plotinus, 12–15, 17, 27, 32, 95, 127
two kinds, 247
Against the Gnostics, * * 68–72
phasmata, * * 62, 245–46
confusion of ontological lev-
philia, * * 43, 160, 165, 168–69, 173–
els, 72–73, 79, 81–82
74, 178. *See also * eros
definition of soul, 79, 81–82,
as unifying power, 140, 160,
103
165, 168
divine possession, 260
Philo, 234 n. 32
ecstasy, 263
philosopher, 14–15, 234
Egyptian images, 193–94
Iamblichus as, 2, 6, 109 n.44,
on matter, 32
122
on the Nous, * * 264, 269
Porphyry as, 9
rationalism and, 4–5, 105, 109
photagogia, * * 94, 189, 193, 248. See rejection of ritual, 13
*also * gods, light of
undescended soul, 13, 75, 122–
*phusei. See * numbers, natural
23
phusis, * * 36, 47
union with the One, 105–6,
as pronoia, * * 36
109, 123
plane, 235–36, 238–40
unorthodox Platonism of, 12,
plants, 52, 167, 188
71, 267
Plato, 2–5, 8–10, 17–18, 30, 79,
Plutarch, 32
267–69
pneuma, * * 58, 99, 102, 119, 129, 248–
dialogues in conflict, 26
- See also ochema; phantasia
Gnosticized, 16
Poimandres, 68
master myth of, 234–35
point, 206, 235, 238–39
Platonic, 67, 91–92, 122
Porphyry, 6, 15–17, 23–24 n. 1, 264
aspiration, 140
on daimons, 148–49
debate with Gnostics, 68
on divination, 90, 262
definition of the soul, 115
henosis of, 123
doctrine on ratios of the soul,
limitations of, 260
74
overlooks material gods, 175–
paideia, * * 5, 8, 10, 11–13
76
taxonomy, 10–11
questions of, 9, 83, 94
view of Egyptians, 24, 268
on theurgic names, 200–204
Platonism, 16–17, 20, 106
theurgy as manipulation, 94
alienated from common man,
possession ( katoche), * * 97, 99. See 266
*also * divination; mantike
dualist forms of, 12–13, 67, 267
preparation for, 197
301
signs of, 92
of World Soul, 52, 245
sounds accompanying, 99, 102
receptacle ( hupodoche), * * 29, 56
prayer, 3–4, 55, 62 n. 19, 92, 97
n.10, 93–95. *See also * soul,
Egyptian, 199
receptacle of the gods
material causes of, 185
of gods, 53, 97
sent from the gods, 125–27
soul as, 63, 175
Preaux, Claire, 203–4
materials for, 189
priest–king. *See * Iamblichus, bar-
Republic, * * 10 n. 24, 14, 107
barian ancestry
rhoizos, * * 99, 101, 198
Priscianus, 110–12
Rist, John, 76
Proclus, 31, 54, 73, 114–15, 118, 185,
ritual, 6, 13–14, 18, 25, 52, 105–6.
204–5, 223–26, 228, 246–47,
*See also * theurgy
266
awakens sunthemata, * * 169
*prognosis. See * knowledge, fore-
culmination of philosophy,
knowledge
147
prohairesis, * * 75–77. *See also * choice; imitates the order of the gods,
will
160, 162, 224–25, 233–34
prohodos, * * 51, 132, 152
necessity of, 104, 119, 124
pronoia, * * 36, 47, 230–31. See also objects of, 93, 139, 178, 212, 214,
providence
219–20
*proousios. See * Demiurge, pre-
*paideia * and, 2
essential
synthesis with philosophy, 221
prosekon, * * 173
transforms passions, 71
providence, 36, 47–48, 180–82.
See also pronoia
sacrifice, 167. *See also * theurgy
Pythagoras, 6, 18–19, 101, 198,
appropriate, 10, 177
220–22, 271
blood, 148, 168–69, 227, 230
doctrines of, 79, 160, 206, 267
effect of, 10, 179
Pythagoreans, 34, 39, 226, 253,
law of, 148, 192, 233–34
268
as a mean, 173
arithmogony of, 33
of the soul, 170
bios, * * 160, 220–22,
willed by gods, 252
mathematics of, 219, 235, 271
Saffrey, H.D., 1 n.1, 5 n.11, 23 n.1
on the mean, 73
sameness ( tautotes), * * 82
wisest men, 34
self, 16, 108, 219
self-consciousness, 123, 164–65,
rationalism, 4–5, 105, 108, 203,
- See also *anatrope * of soul
212–13
seven, 206–9, 254
ratios, 34, 74, 81, 149, 186, 208,
shape of the gods, 57–59, 211, 225–
- *See also * eternal ratios;
27
logoi
Shaw, Gregory, 213 n.1
302
Index
Simplicius, 110
mathematical, 215–16, 218
skopos, * * 42
as a mean, 86, 101, 113, 115, 122
sleep, 91
mortal, 19, 81, 85, 111
Smith, Andrew, 103 n. 15, 104–5,
noetic, 165–72, 232, 253, 270
185–86
*ousia * of, 78, 112–116
Smith, J.Z., 10–11
paradox of, 20, 112–113
solar, 54, 250–51, 252. *See also * sun
receptacle of the gods, 63, 94,
soma, * * 29, 47, 231. *See also * body; 97, 175
ochema
takes another life in theurgy,
Sophia, 71
92–93, 121, 140, 211. *See also *
sorcerer ( goes), * * 191, 209
theurgist, two worlds of
sorcery ( goeteia), * * 191, 210
theurgic, 74, 129–30
soteriology, 17, 121–22, 124–26
three classes of human, 162–72
of Porphyry, 149
undescended, 13–14, 16–18, 71–
soul
72, 75, 115, 122
alienated, 82, 89, 103, 111, 113,
vehicle of gods, 95, 100
141, 219
Speusippus, 36, 118
ascent of, 13–14, 89, 129, 138,
sphere, 31, 57–59, 76, 100–102,
174, 210, 236, 250
- *See also * circular
confusion of, 13
body, 131
*entelecheia * of body, 90, 106
body of gods, 153–54
daimonic, 81
contains multiplicity, 59
defined, 47–48, 78–82, 87–88,
recovery of, 101
112–113
sponge, 117
descent of, 13, 19, 40, 67, 70, 74,
spontaneous, 126–27, 136
94, 106, 131, 162–66, 170–71,
star, 44, 49, 74, 99, 100, 195–96
235–36
Steel, Carlos, 110–15
divine, 81
stoicheia, * * 231
double life of, 91, 122, 143
stones, 52–54, 188–89, 192
embodied, 18, 100, 102–4, 106,
*sumbolon. See * symbol
122, 124, 140, 195
*sumpatheia. See * sympathy
experience of matter, 46–47,
sumphues, * * 51, 56, 136–37
50, 56–57
sun, 117, 194, 199, 252–55. See also
heroic, 81
Helios
imperfect, 82, 104
*sunecheia. See * continuity
intermediate, 165–72, 192, 230
sungeneia, * * 152, 170, 197, 202, 216
lowest god, 51, 63, 85, 87 n. 21,
between sounds and planets,
160, 163
208
material, 165–72, 188–89, 233,
in sacrifice, 173, 178
254, 271
sunthema/sunthemata, * * 53–55,
303
- *See also * symbol
theoria, * * 133
awakened by gods, 125–26
*thesei. See * numbers, conven-
embedded in matter, 55
tional
as eromenon, * * 142
theologia, 5
horizontal expresssion, 187,
Theology of Numbers, * * 36–37, 207–
191, 205–6, 214
8
intermediate, 179–81, 192–211,
theourgia, * * 5–6, 80, 133, 259
233
theurgy, 5–6. *See also * ritual; sac-
material, 179–81, 183–91, 233
rifice
as mean, 135
in *analogia * with creation, 42,
names as, 198–211
191
needs of souls, 193
center of Iamblichus’s Pla-
noetic, 179–81, 212–41
tonism, 19
numbers as, 232–35
consonant with Platonic doc-
object of veneration, 270
trines, 20, 61, 71, 121, 142,
in prayer, 126, 199–200
209, 267, 270
sun, 254
correlate to arithmogonic pro-
vertical expression, 188, 191,
cession, 267
201–3, 213
as demiurgy, 15, 25, 61, 124, 130,
transforms the soul, 124
149, 242, 252
“wild cards,” 202
*energeia * of gods, 173
superior beings ( hoi kreittenoi),
errors in, 94–98
150
expression of philia, * * 160
symbol, 53, 93, 183. See also
genuine, 94–95
sunthema
given by the gods, 104
reveals invisible measures, 23
goal of, 124, 270
transforms the soul, 94, 124
*henosis * in, 57, 123, 127
sympathy, 229–30, 253, 261
higher / lower, 213
Symposium, * * 9 n. 21, 42, 142
ineffable, 18, 94–94, 122–23
Synesius, 247
intermediate, 179–81, 192–212
irrational, 108, 237
tantra, 227 n. 14
material, 170, 179–81
Tarrant, H., 36
material gods and, 167
*tautotes. See * sameness
mediation of extremes in, 28
technikos, * * 42
misunderstanding of, 270
tetrad, 215, 222
noetic, 176, 179–81, 212–241
tetraktus, * * 214, 222, 227, 230, 235–
numbers in, 217–18, 232–34,
40, 254
237, 268
theios, * * 29, 138, 164
pragmatism of, 127
theios aner, * * 57
proto-, 101
304
Index
recollection and, 26
universal soul. *See * World Soul
the sun in, 255
unlimited, 38, 126, 153, 218, 228,
theurgist, 163–64, 173
238, 241, 253. See also apeiron
assimilated to the Demiurge,
utopian, 12–13
59, 64, 210
embodies divine arithmoi, * * 229
virtue, 23–24 n. 1
instrument of the gods, 64,
voice, 207
240
volume, 235–36, 238–40. See also
as mantis, * * 260
tetraktus
in rank of angels, 74–75
vowels, 206–10
as sunthema, * * 179
two worlds of, 56, 60, 210–11
whole, 44, 50, 73
unknown in early second cen-
and parts, 59–61, 68–70, 164–
tury, 207
65, 245
thought, 93–94, 125, 131, 235. See
will, 56, 75–76. See also pro-
*also * knowledge
hairesis
thurathen, * * 106. See also exothen of the gods, 25, 56, 76, 89, 103,
Timaeus, 5, 25–31, 33, 37–39, 41,
125
52, 56, 61–63, 67, 106
imposition of, 94–95
gnosticized interpretation of,
of Paternal Demiurge, 154, 183
68
united with Demiurge, 127–29,
mathematical mediation, 79,
210, 255
214–15
World Soul, 32, 41, 44, 57, 67, 69–
master myth of, 233–35
74
translation, 203–6. See also
numbers of, 52, 214–19, 221,
names
268
triad, 38, 159–60, 222–24
as undescended souls, 71
triktus, * * 222–23, 227, 230
Trouillard, Jean, 39, 51, 133, 199–
Xenocrates, 118, 215
200, 213
turiya, 251
yoga, 62 n.18, 248–51
305