The Secret Faces of Hecate | Stephen Ronan

Stephen Ronan's research is devoted to Hecate as the Great Goddess, on whose behalf many of the Chaldean oracles — prophecies received during ritual work with pagan gods in the second half of the II century AD are spoken..

Hecate of the Chaldean oracles appears as the personified World Soul and Life, Nature and Fate, the source of souls and virtues, the mistress of demons and angels. According to the author, this is the only ancient goddess from whose cult a full-fledged esoteric teaching has come down to us first-hand.

The basis of the publication is an extensive selection of oracles related to Hecate; the texts of the oracles are accompanied by detailed comments. The author analyzes the place of Hecate in the general cosmological structure presented in the Chaldean oracles, and explores the origins and parallels of this powerful and paradoxical image.


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The CONTENTS

Introductory remarks
Chaldean Oracles
About the methodology

Chaldean Cosmology
A brief analysis of the Chaldean hierarchy
Empyrean
Ethereal Worlds
Material worlds
Sources of Chaldean Cosmology
The Chaldean system and modern scientific research

Fragments of the Chaldean doctrine of Hecate
Preliminary remark
SECTION 1. The position and status of Hecate
SECTION 2. Functions and images of Hecate
SECTION 3. virtue
SECTION 4. Hecate as Soul and Life
SECTION 5. Hecate as Nature and Destiny
SECTION 6. Hecate as the Lady of Demons
SECTION 7. Hecate and the vertigo
SECTION 8. The phenomena of Hecate
SECTION 9. Hecate, identified with other goddesses .

Hecate and the Moon

The Origin of the Chaldean Hecate

Assyrian parallels
Hecate and Atargatis
Text No. №84 from the van Berg collection
The First and Second Fathers

Hecate and the sanctuary on the Janiculum

Chaldean Hecate and Mitre

Spiral motifs

The results
The symbolism of Hecate
Chaldean Hecate and Greco-Roman Hecate
Hecate the Savior and Hecate the Destroyer
The power of the image
Abbreviations

Literature

Translator's Notes

Hecate in the Greek Magical Papyri