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Heavenly origin of the soul
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.02 Cult of Ištar
03.02.01 Doctrine of salvation
03.02.01.01 Heavenly origin of the soul
Purification magic
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.04 Magic and exorcism
05.04.03 Purification magic
Purity vs. sin
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas
01.01.03 Emergence of binary oppositions
01.01.03.02 Purity vs. sin
Keywords
Chaldean Oracles
purification
Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire
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Text
Chaldean Oracles 120: (We must)
take care of the purification of our luminous body, which the Oracles also call delicate vehicle of the soul.
Source (list of abbreviations ) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Chaldean Oracles 120
Bibliography
Majercik 1989, 94-95 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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