The Chaldean Oracles
- Date of account
- Second century CE
- Location
- Late antique eastern Mediterranean
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Chaldean Oracles are a fragmentary theurgic poem attributed in antiquity to Julian the Theurgist and later influential among Neoplatonists, especially Proclus and Damascius. The lead matters for comparing revelation, ritual ascent, cosmology, angelic intermediaries, and the transmission of fragmentary esoteric texts through hostile or selective commentators. The complete original work is lost, and modern editions reconstruct fragments from later quotations. Its precise religious setting, authorship, and relationship to Persian traditions remain subjects of scholarly discussion rather than settled facts.
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