On the Mysteries of the Egyptians - On the Mysteries of the Egyptians

Japanese: 《エジプト人の密儀について》 - えじぷとじんのみつぎについて
On the Mysteries of the Egyptians - On the Mysteries of the Egyptians

…He further developed Plotinus's contemplation (theōria) and established a method in which the revelation of human spirituality becomes the work of God (theurgia) as a kind of liturgical magic. In his major work, On the Egyptian Mysteries, he introduced an infinitely divisible hierarchical order into the world and regarded beings as intermediate beings between higher and lower things, and therefore as mediators. Mysteries are the process by which the soul ascends one by one of these hierarchies, eventually reaching union with the One. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "On the Egyptian Mysteries" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…プロティノスの観想(テオリアtheōria)をさらに発展させ,人間の霊性開顕がそのまま神の業(テウルギアtheurgia)になるような方法を一種の典礼魔術として確立した。主著《エジプト人の密儀について》は,世界に無限に分割可能な位階秩序を導入し,存在者をより上のものとより下のものとの中間者,それゆえ媒介者としてとらえている。密儀とは魂がこの位階を一つずつ昇りつめ,ついには〈一者〉との合一に至る過程である。…

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