The Vision of Aridaeus

Name: The Vision of Aridaeus
Author: G. R. S. Mead
ISBN: 9781911535386

Author: G. R. S. Mead
Series: Christian Classics
Language: English
Length: 40 pages
ISBN: 9781911535386
Published: 19 September 2016
Imprint: The Big Nest

Gnostic
Coptic
mystic
mysticism
divinity
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cosmology
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Description

The Story of Aridæus is the most detailed and graphic Vision of Hades preserved to us from classical antiquity, and exceeds in interest even Plato’s Story of Er and Cicero’s Dream of Scipio, not to speak of the less known Visions of Krates and of Zosimus. It brings to a striking conclusion the instructive treatise of Plutarch, the Greek title of which may be rendered, On the Delay of the Deity in Punishing the Wicked or On the Delay of Divine Justice.

Author

G. R. S. Mead (1863–1933) was an English historian and translator who opened Hermetic, Gnostic, and Neoplatonic texts to a modern readership. A prominent Theosophist and later founder of the Quest Society, he treated ancient wisdom as living literature rather than museum dust. Pistis Sophia, his studies of Hermes, and related works in our catalogue show a scholar who wanted the hidden traditions of late antiquity to speak clearly in English.

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