The Chaldean Oracles

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The Chaldean Oracles are the sacred scripture of the Neoplatonic mystery tradition — a series of hexameter verses attributed to a divine revelation received by Julian the Theurgist in the 2nd century AD. Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus all commented on them as the highest of all sacred texts. Julian the Apostate, Rome’s last pagan emperor, included them at the centre of his attempted pagan reviv

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Edition057

FormatDigital PDF

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TraditionMystery Schools

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01 / Historical context

2nd century AD. Attributed to Julian the Theurgist. The sacred scripture of late Neoplatonism. Burned with the library of Alexandria. Survived only in fragments quoted by commentat

02 / Why it matters

The sacred scripture of the last pagans. Burned. Reassembled from fragments.

From / associated with the text

““Haste not to the dark world, beneath which lies the Abyss, the bottomless Gehenna, ever horrible and dark, delighting in unimaginable images.””

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The Chaldean Oracles

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