First, thank you for undertaking this series. It's prompted me to rethink some of the passages I had taken for granted in this little tract. I still find it valuable, especially as a guide for the "layperson" (like me) who is not (yet?) ready to, say, sit down with Proclus's entire commentary on Timaeus, for example.
I think Murray's quote is quite apt. But I also don't regard Neoplatonism as a religion—I regard it as a philosophical theory that undergirds various (particularly Western) cults, by which one might assemble a working understanding of how they interact with each other (or don't!) and the whole. I would agree, however, that it is not in my particular interest to reanimate any one cult or another (if that were even possible, given the vast expanse of time and culture separating us from the original adherents). That said, and speaking only for myself, I would investigate those cults and their myths, symbols, and rituals as navigation points, as a means of finding our individual paths back to the gods.
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Date: 2022-03-23 02:46 pm (UTC)I think Murray's quote is quite apt. But I also don't regard Neoplatonism as a religion—I regard it as a philosophical theory that undergirds various (particularly Western) cults, by which one might assemble a working understanding of how they interact with each other (or don't!) and the whole. I would agree, however, that it is not in my particular interest to reanimate any one cult or another (if that were even possible, given the vast expanse of time and culture separating us from the original adherents). That said, and speaking only for myself, I would investigate those cults and their myths, symbols, and rituals as navigation points, as a means of finding our individual paths back to the gods.