Origins & Lineage
- Chaldean-Persian Priesthood
- Egyptian Temple Magic (Heliopolitan, Hermopolitan traditions)
- Neoplatonism: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus
- Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis as foundational source
- Hermetic texts (e.g. Asclepius, Corpus Hermeticum)
- Pythagorean cosmology and mathematical soul ascent