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Ascent in the Chaldean Oracles (1)

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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)

Keywords
ascent
Chaldean Oracles
soul

Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire

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Text
Chaldean Oracles 136:
For in terms of both contemplative vision and telestic art, it is this which makes the ascent safe and sure for us - progress in an orderly fashion. At any rate, as the oracle says: “For no other reason does God turn away from man and, with his living power, send him on empty pathways,” as whenever, in a disorderly and incorrect fashion, we make the ascent to the most holy of the visions or works.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Chaldean Oracles 136

Bibliography

Majercik 1989, 100-101

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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