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Charles Mopsik – The Network Of Souls In Qabbalah

Charles Mopsik Picture by Marc Attali * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is a substantial study by Charles Mopsik excerpted from ‘Chemins de la Cabale, vingt-cinq études sur la mystique Juive’, Editions de l’Eclat in 2004....

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Philostratus-From The ‘Heroicus’-An Evocation Of The Homeric Hero Achilles

‘The Psychostasia, or weighing of the souls, of Achilles and Memnon’, by Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741–1825). Grey, brown and pink washes over pencil. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an excerpt from Lucius Flavius Philostratus’...

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Antoine Court de Gebelin-Themis & The Horae

‘Themis and the 3 Horae’. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is from Antoine Court de Gebelin’s ‘Monde Primitif’, tome IV-‘Histoire du Calendrier’, Paris_1776 and is about Themis and the 3 seasons of ancient Greece. ** Notice for...

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Charles François Dupuis-Dionysos Leading The Rising Pleiades

‘Dionysos leading the Pleiades’, drawn by Ducoudray, etched by L. Pauquet and finished with a chisel by P.H. Triere. * In order to start the week-end in style, here is a sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA, from Charles François Dupuis’s...

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Gaius Julius Hyginus & Robert Graves-The Mythical Origin Of The Greek Alphabet

Title page of the 1535 Edition of Hyginus’ ‘Fabulae’. SLUB Dresden. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an excerpt from HYGINUS’s ‘Fabulae’, number 277, that tells about the mythical origin of the...

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Raymond Abellio-A ‘Carlo Suarès Cameo’

Carlo Giuseppe Suarès, (1892–1976). Picture by Alari @ O S I R E. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is a cameo by Raymond Abellio, a.k.a. George Soules,  excerpted from the posthumous ‘Manifeste de la Nouvelle Gnose’, Editions Gallimard,...

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Hans Blumenberg-Myth Allows Man To Live, By Depleting Superior Power

Bas-relief on marble plate, 2nd or 3rd century AD, from the excavations of the Moreria de Sagunto site. from the collections of the Historical Museum of Sagunto (MUHSAG) in the province of Valencia, Spain. Picture by Joan Banjo. * Today’s in our sharing...

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Hans Blumenberg-Introduction To ‘Paradigm For A Metaphorology’

Hans Blumenberg. Picture © The Hans Blumenberg Foundation. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an introduction to Hans Blumenberg, ‘the invisible philosopher of Münster’, who penned the famous words: “the absolutism of reality.”...

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The Philosopher In A Troubled Time In Plato’s ‘Republic’

‘Philosophia’ and the ‘Misero’ from the Lo Scarabeo edition of the Mantegna engravings. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an extract from Plato’s ‘Republic’, Chapter VI, from 494 to 496, Page...

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Pseudo Aristotle-‘De Mundo’-Echoes Of Plato’s ‘Law’ IV-‘As Old Tradition Tells’

Gustav Adolph Spangenberg, Die Schule des Aristoteles, Fresko 1883-1888. Halle (Sachsen-Anhalt), Hauptgebäude der Universität, Treppenhaus. Aus dem Zyklus “Die Vier Fakultäten”. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an short...

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Tiberianus-A Neo-Platonist ‘Hymn To The Creator’

Oculus of the Roman Pantheon. Picture at Wikimedia Commons. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an Hymn to the Creator ascribed to Plato, a poem preserved in the Anthologia Latina II (Minor Latin Poets II, Loeb Classical Library, 1934,...

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Publius Vergilius Maro-Virgil’s Salian Hymn To Hercules

Modern re-enactment of the Danse of the Salii. Picture by Martina Cammerata. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an hymn devoted to Hercules excerpted from Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’, Chapter VIII, section 285 to 306-‘A...

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Fernando Pessoa-The Ancient Rhythmic Stomping Of Bare Feet

‘ Apollo and the Muses’, Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March 1481 – 6 January 1536), an Italian architect and painter. From the Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre Collection. UK. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is...

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Damascius- Gleans From The ‘Commentaries Upon Plato’s ‘Phaedo”-GAIA, The Mother Goddess

School of Jan Brueghel the Younger and School of Hendrik van Balen – Earth, One of the four Elements. Picture for Sotheby’s 2004 Old Master’s Paintings catalog, lot 108. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA are chosen...

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Andre-Jean Voelke-Commentary Upon Marcus Aurelius’ ‘Health Of The World & Health Of The Individual’

Zeus with Cornucopia. This Cthonic aspect of Zeus holds in his left hand the Cornucopia around which ascends the Agathodaimon Dragon (Drakontas), while with his right hand offers a libation (sponde) with a Patera (phiale). Ceramic. Source: @allsoulst * Today’s...

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus-Health Of The World & Health of the individual

‘Marcus Aurelius distributing bread to the People’ 1765, by Joseph-Marie Vien, in Musée de Picardie, Amiens. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an excerpt from Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus’ ‘Thoughts’...

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Martha Nussbaum- Gleans from ‘The Therapy of Desire’: Philosophers As Compassionate Physicians

Martha Craven Nussbaum is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosophy department. She has a particular...

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Simplicius of Cilicia On Epictetus’ Stoicism: Medicine Of The Body & Medicine Of The Soul

‘Job’, Jules Bastien Lepage, 1876.Huile sur toile. Musee des Beaux Arts de Nancy. Picture by Amber Tree @ Flickr. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an extract from Simplicius of Cilicia’s ‘Commentaries upon...

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Iamblichus & Simplicius, late Neo-Platonists philosophers in prayer

‘Gift of Hermes and Athena.‘ A 1560 vignette from the printer, Gratiosus Perchacinus. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA are four short prayers/invocations by Neo-Platonists philosophers, Iamblichus and Simplicius.   ** From...

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Gleans from Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin’s ‘The Way and the Word’-What Is Ancient Science?

The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion’s L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were a solid...

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Shigehisa Kuriyama- Gleans from ‘The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine’-Galen and Blood Letting

Bloodletting illustration. Man wearing a tourniquet, letting blood flow into a bowl. Two other bowls already filled with blood sit nearby, c. 1675. From a German compendium of popular medicine and surgery, compiled for the use of a house of the Franciscan...

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Robert Drummond Lamberton-The Arabic ‘Transmission’ Of Homer

The House of Wisdom, Bayt al-HikmaThe House of Wisdom (Arabic: بيت الحكمة‎‎; Bayt al-Hikma) was a major intellectual center during the Islamic Golden Age. Photograph of Mustansiriya Madrassa by Taisir Mahdi * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of...

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Eric Robertson Dodds-‘Seeing A Dream’ In Homeric Poetry

‘Penelope’s dream’. Illustration from ‘Stories from Homer’ by Alfred Church (London, 1878), from John Flaxman (1755-1826) design. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an excerpt from Eric Robertson Dodds’...

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Alan Cameron- Are Hypatia’s Writings Really Lost?

This fictional portrait of Hypatia by Jules Maurice Gaspard, originally the illustration for Elbert Hubbard’s 1908 fictional biography, has now become, by far, the most iconic and widely reproduced image of her. Jules Maurice Gaspard – Elbert...

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Adeline Grand-Clement-What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Synaesthesia?

Example of synaesthesia by JotDee. * Today’s sharing from the blue House of HYGEIA is an excerpt from Adeline Grand-Clement’s article, ‘Sensorium, Sensescapes, Synaesthesia, Multisensoriality: A New Way of Approaching Religious Experience...

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Corbin & Suhrawardi-From the Book of Tablets: The Closing Prayer

‘Worship’. Illustration from the “MirajNameh of Mirheydar” (Book of Muhammad’s Ascension compiled by Mirheydar). International Journal of Arts. 2012. From the article, ‘The Manifestation of Fire and Lightin the Icons of Mir-Heidar’s Miraj...

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Kurt Rudolph-A Reading from ‘Gnosis’: About Mani & the Manicheans

Sermon on Mani’s Teaching of Salvation, Cathayan/Chinese Manichaean silk painting, detail from the complete hanging scroll, 142 cm x 59,2 cm, colours on silk, ca. 13th century, Yamato Bunkakan Museum, Nara, Japan. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House...

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André Villey- Alexander of Lycopolis: ‘Against the doctrines of the Manicheans’

Manichaean priests, writing at their desks. Eighth or ninth century manuscript from Gaochang, Tarim Basin, China. Leaf from a Manichaean Book. Khocho (Khocho kingdom), Ruin K. 8th/9th century AD. Painting on paper. 17.2x 11.2 cm. “MIK III 6368” recto. * Today’s...

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When A Popular Series Prompts Discovery, Research and Reading

Luoyang (Chinese: 风起洛阳) is a 2021 Chinese costume, mystery television series. * I always wanted to discover and study the works and thought of the ancient Chinese philosopher MO Zi but haven’t been able to do so until very recently. * Thanks to a...

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Irene Vallejo-A Vindication Of Books

Irene Vallejo, picture @ elperiodico.com * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an excerpt from Irene Vallejo’s ‘The infinity within a reed‘ (El infinito en un junco. La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo) The invention of the book...

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Leah Kronenberg- Plato & Xenophon: A Socratic Defense Of Philosophical Life

Mosaïque de l’Académie de Platon. Mosaïque romaine du 1er siècle avant J.-C. (provenance : Pompéi). Emplacement actuel : Museo Nazionale Archologico, Naples * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an excerpt from Leah Kronenberg’s...

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Malcolm Bull-Sandro Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’

Primavera is a large panel painting in tempera paint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli made in the late 1470s or early 1480s (datings vary). It has been described as “one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings...

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A Little ‘Hermetica’ Sampler From the Stobaeus Anthology

Thoth as the Ibis with a Maat feather. 4rth century B.C., possibly from Hermopolis in Middle Egypt. Collections from the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA are a few excerpts from David Litwa’s English...

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Marsilio Ficino-Good Fortune Is In Fate; True Happiness In Virtue

Palazzo Venturi Ginori, medallion with a Marsilio Ficino bust. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is a letter from Marsilio Ficino to Lorenzo de Medici-the Younger-‘Prospera in fato fortuna. Vera in virtute felicitas‘, in...

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MO Zi-Precursor of modern Chinese Philosophy and Science-05: Sampler-04

MO Zi, the Chinese social and philosophical precursor. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is the sixth of posts dedicated to MO Zi and the school of thought that was formed around him, Mohism, we presented in the first post. Here we start our...

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Pierre Hadot-Emperor Julian & Heraclitus’ Aphorism: ‘Nature Loves To Hide’

Frontispiece to Erasmus Darwin’s poem ‘The Temple of Nature‘, an engraving based on a drawing by Johann Heinrich Füssli. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an excerpt from Pierre Hadot trail-blazing study, ‘The...

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About Myths & Philosophy-Emperor Julian’s Seventh Oration

Engraved Frontispiece by Gerard de Lairesse for the art and Gilliam van der Gouwen for the engraving for the 1688 edition of Thomas Gales’ ‘Opuscula Mythologica, Physica et Ethica‘, Heinrich Wetstein, Amsterdam. * Today’s sharing...

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The Night Watch of Venus

‘Aphrodite Anadyomene’. Fresco from Pompei, Casa di Venus, 1st century AD., dug out in 1960. It is supposed that this fresco could be the Roman copy of a famous portrait of Campaspe, mistress of Alexander the Great. Picture by Stephen Haynes. * Today’s...

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Marsilio Ficino-Between Platonism and Stoicism

Palazzo venturi ginori, medallion with a Marsilio Ficino bust. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is a quote from the foreword of Marsilio Ficino’s new-edition-in-the-making of his ‘Collected Letters’. Translated and annotated...

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Dio Chrysostom-The Eleventh Discourse: That Troy was not Captured

Jean Maublanc (1582-ap. 1629), La prise de Troie, © musée des beaux-arts de Besançon. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is the ‘Eleventh Discourse’ of Dio Chrysostom, a tongue-in-cheek ‘tour de force’...

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Pierre Hadot & Marcus Aurelius-The Three Virtues And The Three Disciplines

Marcus Aurelius equestrian statue at the Capitoline Museum, Rome, Italy. Picture by Mary Harrsch. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an excerpt from Pierre Hadot’s impressive ‘The Inner Citadel-An introduction to the ‘Meditations’...

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Pierre Hadot & Marcus Aurelius-The Three Rules Of Life Or Disciplines According To Epictetus

* Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is an excerpt from Pierre Hadot’s impressive ‘The Inner Citadel-An introduction to the ‘Meditations’ of Marcus Aurelius.’ Translated by Michael Chase. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, Cambridge, Massachusetts,...

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