The Vision of Aridaeus
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The Vision of Aridaeus - G.R.S. Mead
G. R. S. Mead
The Vision of Aridaeus
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THE VISION
THE VISION
PREAMBLE.
The Story of Aridæus is the most detailed and graphic Vision of Hades preserved to us from classical antiquity, and exceeds in interest even Plato’s Story of Er and Cicero’s Dream of Scipio, not to speak of the less known Visions of Krates and of Zosimus.
It brings to a striking conclusion the instructive treatise of Plutarch, the Greek title of which may be rendered, On the Delay of the Deity in Punishing the Wicked or On the Delay of Divine Justice.
Plutarch of Chæroneia, in Bœotia, flourished in the last quarter of the second century (? 50-120 A.D.). He was one of the most enlightened of the ancients, exceedingly well versed in the details of the religious philosophies and the sciences of his day, and possessed of good critical abilities; he was also a man of wide religious experience, holding high office at Delphi in the service of Apollo and also in connection with the Dionysiac Rites, and had a profound knowledge of the inner grades of the Osiric Mysteries. He was educated in Athens and Alexandria and lectured at Rome.
Plutarch is one of our most valuable sources of information on the Hellenic and Hellenistic theology, theosophy and mystagogy of the first century, and is therefore indispensable in any comparative study of the Gnosis.
Our philosopher has been variously styled a Platonist, Neo-platonist, Eclectic, Ethicist and Syncretist; but it is very difficult to label Plutarch precisely, for as Dr. John Oakesmith, in his instructive essay, The Religion of Plutarch: A Pagan Creed of Apostolic Times (London; 1902), says, he suggested a frame of mind rather than inculcated a body of dogma.
He was in some ways a very good specimen of what we ought to mean to day by the term theosophist.
Though there is not a single word in the whole of his voluminous writings to show that he was acquainted with Christianity, it has nevertheless been argued that he must have derived his ethics and monotheistic ideas from Christianity; and, curiously enough, Dr. Charles Super, in his Between Heathenism and Christianity (Chicago; 1889), selects the very treatise of Plutarch’s which contains our Vision (together with Seneca’s Concerning Providence), to demonstrate the intimate points of contact between the religio-philosophy of the time and the New Religion.
We have, however, shown at length in the Prolegomena of Thrice Greatest Hermes that the doctrines of Hellenistic theology, theosophy and gnosis