In reading the book Dimitri Gutas (see "Greek Thought, Arab Culture": http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2010/08/pensee-grecque-culture-arabe.html ), j 'I discovered the existence of a certain Gemistos Plethon Georgios (1360-1452 or 4), a Byzantine philosopher, who believed that Greece in particular and the world in general would be better off if we abandoned Christianity to return to a system close to the Greek Paganism. He outlined his doctrine in Laws , book unfortunately partly destroyed. The Olympian gods in a specific hierarchical order, are presented as govern the universe. He also said based on the doctrine of Zoroaster (who was known in ancient Persia) and the Chaldean Oracles (which is actually a Greek mystical book late, no relation to the Chaldeans, in some sense word: cf. http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2008/05/qui-sont-les-chaldens.html and http://cheminsantiques.blogspot.com/2009/08/ils-sont- fools-these-chaldeens.html ).
Like the courage of this gentleman, who seemed also very intelligent and cultured, and I regret that his name be forgotten.
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