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A Chaldean learning of powers (1)

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02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs


 		Keywords
four elements
primordial causes
Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
A certain Zaratus the Chaldean met Pythagoras and gave him a teaching on the cosmic principles.

Hippolytus, Refutatio 1.2.13:
There are two divine beings or powers (daimones). One is celestial, the other terrestrial. The terrestrial power sends up creation out of the earth: it is water. The celestial consists of fire with a share of air: hot plus cold. This being the case - he explains - none of these elements is capable of destroying or polluting the soul. For they are the essence of everything that exists.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Hippolytus, Refutatio 1.2.13

Bibliography

Kingsley 1990, 247-248Kingsley, Peter. “The Greek Origin of the Sixth-Century Dating of Zoroaster.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 53 (1990) 245-265. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]

Amar Annus


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