French Pythagorean esotericism and linguistics

The Golden Verses of Pythagoras with the Commentary of Hierocles

Name: The Golden Verses of Pythagoras with the Commentary of Hierocles
Author: Antoine Fabre d'Olivet

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Antoine Fabre d'Olivet's erudite 1813 French edition of the Golden Verses attributed to Pythagoras, accompanied by his own extensive esoteric commentary. The brief Golden Verses are a set of Pythagorean ethical and cosmological maxims, and d'Olivet interprets them as a condensed expression of an ancient universal wisdom — connecting Pythagorean number-philosophy, the music of the spheres, and the soul's spiritual ascent to a prisca sapientia shared with Egyptian, Hebrew, and Indian traditions. An important text of the French occult revival and a key document of perennialist esoteric thought.

Also known asCarmina Aurea · Golden Verses of Pythagoras

This edition1813

EditionAntoine Fabre d'Olivet French edition with esoteric commentary 1813; original Golden Verses attributed to Pythagoras c. 300–100 BCE

ancient mysteriesPlatonismPythagorean Number-Letter LinksNeoplatonismAncient Greek / HellenisticPythagorean numerologyMystery religionsAncient WisdomEthical living as spiritual pathPythagoras PhilosophyEsoteric PhilosophyPhilosophical MysticismMathematical mysticismNeopythagoreanism

Contents21 chapters

01The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
02Explained and Translated into French and Preceded by a Discourse upon the Essence and Form of Poetry Among the Principal Peoples of the Earth
03Fabre d’Olivet
04TRANSLATOR’S FOREWORD
05The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
06DISCOURSE UPON THE ESSENCE AND FORM OF POETRY
07THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS
08EXAMINATIONS OF THE GOLDEN VERSES: EXPLANATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS
09Footnotes
10Transcriber’s Note
11THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
12"Cover"
13The Project Gutenberg eBook of The golden verses of Pythagoras
14The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d'Olivet—A Project Gutenberg eBook
15The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d'Olivet—A Project Gutenberg eBook
16The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d'Olivet—A Project Gutenberg eBook
17The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d'Olivet—A Project Gutenberg eBook
18The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d'Olivet—A Project Gutenberg eBook
19The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d'Olivet—A Project Gutenberg eBook
20The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d'Olivet—A Project Gutenberg eBook
21The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d'Olivet—A Project Gutenberg eBook