A review by lakserk
Iamblichus: de Mysteriis by Iamblichus

3.0

More of a philosophical work than a practical one, De Mysteriis is a difficult read which offers valuable glimpses to the neoplatonical pagan worldview of late antiquity. It is interesting that, despite his distaste for rationality (something that drew me in the first place), Iamblichus' worldview and reasoning is proven to be pretty much based on rational innards - a thing that I guess was more or less the norm for the Roman-Greek world since the Classical times.
The book obviously combines nicely with the Greek Magical Papyri, its practical (and much more interesting I would say) reflection.