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ISBN 10: 0595744729 ISBN 13: 9780595744725
Editorial: iUniverse, 2000

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This book traces the belief in oracles back to Orpheus, the legendary poet-prince, who travelled with Jason, charmed the sirens, and descended into Hades trying to save his Eurydice. Orpheus is one of those figures like Theseus, somewhat historical, fascinating, the subject of 27 operas. Orpheus may be the first Kristos, 'anointed one,' said to be a pioneer, a preacher (of apparently very persuasive talents), who preached a belief in metempsychosis, forbade sacrifice, murder, or the eating of meat - went against the mainline of belief and was said to have been assassinated during a Dionysian ceremony. Orphic writings, while mentioned by Plato and others, are lost, but his ideas have come down to us through a succession of Christos -Zoroaster, Krishna, Gautama, Jesus, Mani, Muhammad - not all of whom found martyrdom to be sure: Zoroaster was said to have been consumed by a flash of lighting, and there is Muhammad, suspended between heaven and earth. The lost poems of Orpheus are said to be oracular in nature and Bakkids and Sybils roamed the byways reciting them. This was before temple building, and on of the earliest of these was the shrine at Delphi. Of course belief in oracles goes hand in hand with a belief in any immaterial and parallel world inhabited by spirits or 'souls' where the future is as clearly perceived as the past. The priest of the shrine - or the shrine itself - provided mortals some access to that other world and its foreknowledge - the ancient Greeks believed. The author wants to demonstrate, not the truth (necessarily) of oracles but the power of belief in them, and in the attempt to show the influence of Orpheus on oracular belief we must also acknowledge his influence on spiritual or "Orphic religions," and how we have traded an entire world of the spirit for something more efficient but far less 'soul-satisfying.' Nostradamus emerges somewhere out of the Middle Ages to show that belief in oracles had not yet died. After a

Biografía del autor

Tom Gelinske graduated with honors from Wayne State University majoring in Literature and Humanities, then earned his Master's degree in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. Tom was a popular Humanities lecturer at U.C.S.D. and later taught philosophy at Los Angeles City College and East Los Angeles Community College, where he included Carlos Casteneda's books in the curriculum.Tom has edited and contributed to nationally distributed magazines. His play The Crystal Messenger was staged by The San Diego Repertory Theatre. His poetry appeared in City Works 1999, an annual literary anthology produced by San Diego City College.

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Editorial
iUniverse
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0595744729
ISBN 13 
9780595744725
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Tapa dura
Número de páginas
132
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