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  Proclus and the Chaldeans logvoid <user7019@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2025-09-16 12:59 +0000
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#139 — Proclus and the Chaldeans

The philospher Proclus thought that he understood Plato as Plato knew himself, however, in truth, he knows Plato after the Chaldeans. Plato himself lived in the Era long after the Gods of Ur and Assur and so on. The Greek Gods are mere reexpressions of something much deeper and older. The Persian period of commentary on Murdock among the Hebrews is translated into Greek long before Proclus, and so the Extra-Bibilcal was already at Play in the Theology of Plato and Proclus. Psuedo-Dionysius simply connects tradition down to the depths of Assyria and so on...

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logvoid <user7019@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

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> The philospher Proclus thought that he understood Plato as Plato knew himself, however, in truth, he knows Plato after the Chaldeans. Plato himself lived in the Era long after the Gods of Ur and Assur and so on. The Greek Gods are mere reexpressions of something much deeper and older. The Persian period of commentary on Murdock among the Hebrews is translated into Greek long before Proclus, and so the Extra-Bibilcal was already at Play in the Theology of Plato and Proclus. Psuedo-Dionysius simply connects tradition down to the depths of Assyria and so on...

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It is clear to many that the Roman Gods drew upon
Those Gods of the Greeks, yet who among us
Has asked where the Gods before the Greeks came?

Yes, Plato and Proclus still have the Gods in mind
But these Gods were not their own originally
Yes, it is the case that Platonism is rather an Orientalism
The Gods of the Greeks are rather continuations of Ur, Assur, etc

The Bible was translated into Greek, but the Gods behind the Bible:
These too made their way into Greek. The background against which 
Those Hebrew myths strove schismogenetically is just what
The Platonists embrace as Chaldean. 

For centuries Islamic Theology often worked through Plotinus 
Proclus and the rest, and this is to be taken further with 
A reverence for Assur and Ur that Archeology affords

A genealogy of the Gods gives us a great insight into the
Production of the discourse on God, as a minor El against Bel.
Who are we after the slander of Murdock, but misguided philologists?

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