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Introduction ..................................... 7
PART 1: RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY
ENDRE ADAM HAMVAS: Initiation in the Hermetica. . ............. 13
STEFAN FREUND: Cyprian’s Ad Donatum as a Mystagogic Protrepticus. . . . 31
ZSUZSANNA TURCSAN-IOTH: The Statue of Artemis Ephesia in the Light of
Porphyry’s On the Cave ofthe Nymphs. .................... 47
Fitip DOROSZEWSKI: Rite or Metaphor? The Use of dpyta in the Works of
the Greek Christian Writers of the 4° and 5" Centuries........... 65
IstvAN PASzTORI-KuPAN: Faith as a Prerequisite to
the Initiation into the Mysteries in Theodoret of Cyrus ........... 81
ANNA JupIT TOTH: Dionysus and his Doppelgdngers in John Lydus...... 93
ViLMos VoieT: A Mystery among the Mysteries:
Anıkö Daröczı: Wording the Silence: Initiatory Reading of Mystical Texts. .117
GYÖRGY E. SZÖNYI: A Christian-Hermetic-Judaic Initiation
into the Mysteries: Lodovico Lazzarelli’s Crater Hermetis (ca 1493) . . . .139
ZSUZSANNA KövI, LEVENTE FOGARASSY, ZSUZSANNA MIRNICS,
ANNA MERSDORE, ZOLTAN VASS:
Spiritual Experiences in Adventure Therapy. ................. 157
PART 2: PHILOSOPHY
GERD VAN RIEL: Mysticism and Rationality. A Neoplatonic Perspective . . .171
MiIkLos VASSANYI: Transcending Transcendence: The Mystery of God
in Part 4 of St Denys the Areopagite’s On the Divine Names. ........ 185
MONIKA FRAZER-IMREGH: Initiation into Mysteries in Pico’s Works ..... 197
ANTONIO DALLIGNA: Is the Mysticism of Giordano Bruno
a Formoflnitiation? ............................... 207
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