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🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴 #Dionysus2028 I give professional crank that's why they call me a nutjob Are you tired of being repressed? Don't you just want to reaffirm the urge to life?
![that gods are too spiritual to be engaged in material rites is a belief that empties our world of divinity:
This doctrine [lamblichus says] spells the ruin of all holy ritual and theurgic communion between gods and men, since it places the presence of superior beings outside the earth. It amounts to saying that the divine is at a distance from the earth and cannot mingle with men, and that this lower region is a desert, without gods.
In direct contrast to this bleak vision, lamblichean theurgy aims to sustain the continuity of the gods with our physical world this lower region—by recognizing their presence in material existence: in animals, plants, and even in stones, and further, that human beings have the capacity to engage this presence by ritually embodying the divine activity, the theurgy, through which it is revealed.
For a Platonist and Pythagorean the cosmos is theophany, and theurgy is the praxis through which human beings enter and embody the divine revelation that is the cosmos and natural world. Iamblichus thus avoided the temptation, so prevalent in his age, to escape from material reality and split the world in two. For lambli-chus the highest is in the lowest. The ineffable One beyond being is present in the densest material reality. The ineffable unities, the henadic gods, are not isolated in some exalted "place" but are revealed symbolically in unifying activities seen, felt, and encountered in our mundane world.? In lamblichus's cosmology, the powers emanating from the One are received and orchestrated by a noetic activity personified by Plato as a Demiurge who weaves these divine powers into a living cosmos. Thus, the highest and most](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wmipxbfo4zwew6uc256mhsyq/bafkreigjfx5ldldfx2opz2jn73jmz4kut5oj77fwpadzwbqh2dxixdbl6m)
