World Soul
Chaldean Hekate is identified as a savior figure, capable of leading the soul from the material world to oneness with the highest realm of reality, the Primordial Fire. As World Soul she stands at the interface of the material and spiritual worlds and can therefore meet the soul after death or during mystical ecstasy and guide it from the material world to the world above. For the philosophical theurgists she represented transition, transformation, and the commerce with lunar and sublunar worlds.
When
- First attested
- 200 CE
- Attested period
- 200 – 1990
- Historical notes
- Debated identification with Hekate.
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Hekate
Sources
Source passages
“In Johnston’s analysis, Chaldean Hekate is a savior figure, capable of leading the soul from the material world to oneness with the highest realm of reality, the Primordial Fire. As World Soul she stands at the interface of the material and spiritual worlds and can therefore meet the soul after death or during mystical ecstasy and guide it from the material world to the world above.”
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