Answering Porphyry’s sceptical questions, Iamblichus defends theurgy — the ritual work by which the Neoplatonists believed the soul is drawn upward — and describes the orders of gods, daemons and heroes, divination, sacrifice and the sacred science of the Egyptians. Thomas Taylor’s translation carried it to the Romantics.
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