The Melammu Project

The Heritage of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East

  The Melammu Project
  Database
   General description
   Search string
   Browse by topic
   Search keyword
   Submit entry
  Bibliographies
   About
   Open search
   Thematic search
   Digital Library
   Submit item
  Links
   Ancient texts
   Dictionaries
   Projects
   Varia
   Submit link
  FAQ
  Contact us
  About

  The Newsletter
  To Project Information >

Divine accessible to the naked (1)

Printable view

Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Ascent of the soul (1)
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.02 Cult of Ištar
03.02.01 Doctrine of salvation
03.02.01.10 Ascent of the soul (1)
Ascent of the soul (2)
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.03 Assyrian substratum features in early Syriac Christianity
12.03.03.17 Mysticism
12.03.03.17.01 Ascent of the soul (2)
Spiritual death = nakedness
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.02 Cult of Ištar
03.02.01 Doctrine of salvation
03.02.01.04 Spiritual death = nakedness

Keywords
Chaldean Oracles
garments

Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
No channel specified

Text
Chaldean Oracles 116:
“For the Divine is accessible not to mortals who think corporeally, but to all those who, naked, hasten upward toward the heights,” as the oracle says.

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Chaldean Oracles 116

Bibliography

Majercik 1989, 92-93

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

URL for this entry: http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/database/gen_html/a0001039.php

Illustrations
No pictures

^
T
O
P