The Golden Chain

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These selections from ancient sources provide powerful testimony of a transmitted mystical dimension, a “Golden Chain,” within Platonism and Pythagoreanism. Presenting key writings of the most important sources of Pythagorean, Platonic and Neoplatonic thought, The Golden Chain defines this philosophy as a spiritual and contemplative way of life that ultimately leads to the vision of God. These writings point to underlying influences from Chaldean, Egyptian, Phoenician and Indian sages, suggesting that the Hellenic wisdom from which all subsequent Western philosophy arose was established upon a perennial philosophy of unchanging metaphysical and divine truths. The rediscovery of this wisdom also allows us to see its crucial importance in the formation of later Judaic, Christian and Islamic thought.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Algis Uzdavinys

Algis Uzdavinys is a research fellow at the Institute of Culture, Philosophy, and Arts, and Lecturer at the Academy of Arts in his native Lithuania. He has translated the works of Frighjof Schuon, ananda Coomaraswamy and Plotinus into Russian and Lithuanian. In 1998, he was awarded an honorary fellowship to the British Academy and was voted the Art Critic of the Year by the Lithuanian Association of Artists.

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Title
The Golden Chain
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788182749818
Length
xxviii+319p., Glossary; Bibliography.
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