hieros logos
(ιερος λογος)
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sacred tale, sacred word or book |
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sacred tale, sacred word or book (e.g. possessed by the initiation priests of Dionysus and Pythagoreans); there were logoi (accounts, explanations) within practical mysteries and additional logoi adduced from outside; they were both exoteric and esoteric, about the mysteries and within the mysteries, developed on three different hermeneutical levels: those of myth, allegory, and metaphysics. |
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The Golden Chain: An Anthology of Platonic and Pythagorean Philosophy, by Dr. Algis Uždavinys |
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