Chaldean Hekate
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Chaldean Hekate is a goddess worshipped in a theurgical mystico-magical tradition based in the Chaldean Oracles. She plays a major cosmological, cosmogonic, salvific, ritual, and devotional role. She is instrumental in the theurgical and philosophical praxis of material and spiritual purification rituals that the Chaldean and, later, Neoplatonic theurgists performed to prepare for union with the Transcendent One.
When
- First attested
- 150 CE
- Attested period
- 150 – 500
- Historical notes
- Flourished from approximately 150 to 500 CE.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- First Intellect, Second Intellect, Hecate, Hekate
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“In recognizing Chaldean Hekate’s place and role in this trinity, the oracles identify her as Power (dynamis). As Power, Hekate is a mediating principle. She “is borne” between the First Intellect and Second Intellect, or Demiurge.”
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