Mircea Eliade "From Primitives to Zen": 'DEMORTALIZING'

APATHANATISMOS

'I a man ... born of mortal womb ... having been this day begotten again by thee, out of so many myriads rendered immortal in this hour by the good will of God in his abounding goodness' (the so ' called Liturgy of Mithra). 'This is the good end for those who have attained knowledge, namely, Deification,' we read in the Hermetic literature (Poimandres, 1, 26), which recalls the famous statement of Clement of Alexandria that the true Gnostic 'practices being God.' In the Thanksgiving prayer of the Perfect Word occurs the expression 'Saved by thee . . . we rejoice that even in our mortal bodies thou didst deify us by the Vision of Thyself' (Greek text in R. Reitzenstein, Die Hellenistische Mysterienreligionen, 2nd ed., p. 114)

S. Angus, The Mystery Religions and Christianity (London, 1925), pp. 110-111

More on Gnosticism:

• Antonia Tripolitis “Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age”

Books by Mircea Eliade:

• Mircea Eliade “The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion”
• Mircea Eliade, Teresa Lavender Fagan “Journal III, 1970-1978 (Journal)”
• Mircea Eliade, Philip Mairet “Images and Symbols”
• Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask “History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity (History of Religious Ideas)”
• Mircea Eliade “The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy”
• Mircea Eliade, Jr., Fred H. Johnson “Journal II, 1957-1969 (Journal)”
• Mircea Eliade “Two Strange Tales”
• Mircea Eliade, Alf Hiltebeitel, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona “A History of Religious Ideas: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms (History of Religious Ideas) Vol.3”
• Mircea Eliade, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona “Symbolism, the Sacred, and the Arts”
• Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask “The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History”

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