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One Fire (1)

Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas
Fire
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.02 Cosmic symbols and imagery
02.02.03 Fire
heaven = fire
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.10 Esoteric lore and hermeneutics
05.10.04 Esoteric associations
05.10.04.01 heaven = fire

Keywords
Chaldean Oracles
fire
primordial causes

Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
No channel specified

Text
Chaldean Oracles 10:
“ … all things have been generated from One Fire.”

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Chaldean Oracles 10

Bibliography

Majercik 1989, 53

Majercik, Ruth. The Chaldean Oracles. Text, Translation, and Commentary. Studies in Greek and Roman Religion 5. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1989.

Amar Annus

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