About
A foundational ritual and spiritual process in esotericism and alchemy aimed at removing impurities from the soul or matter. In the Hermetic and Neoplatonic traditions, it is the necessary first step (katharsis) before illumination or union with the divine.
Connections
Other entities that appear in the same books as Purification.
Appears in 277 Books
Hermes Trismegistus|Jamblichus|Proclus
Diogenes Laertius
Plato (Ficino translation)
Iamblichus; Proclus; Porphyry; trans. Marsilio Ficino
Plato; trans. Marsilio Ficino
Nikodemos & Makarios (eds.)
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Plato | Taylor, Thomas (trans.)
Constantin von Tischendorf
Plotinus (copied by John Skutariotes for Ficino)
Paracelsus, Theophrastus
Seuse, Heinrich
Eckartshausen, Karl von
Arnold, Gottfried
Labadie, Jean de
[Hermann, Johann Gottlieb]
Labarre de Beaumarchais, Antoine de
Seuse, Heinrich
Iamblichus; Thomas Taylor (trans.)
Max Theodor Wilhelm Förster
George William Horner (ed.)
Joseph Stevenson, George Waring
British and Foreign Bible Society
Pseudo-Dionysius / John Parker
Arnold, Gottfried
Khalid ibn Yazid; Arnaldus de Villanova
Anonymous (Irish monks at Bobbio)
Aleister Crowley
Luppe, Johann Samuel; Thryllitzsch, Georg Friedrich
Diogenes Laertius
Plato; Calcidius; Proclus; Aristotle
Plotinus; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Virgil (ed. Henri II Estienne)
Gregory of Nazianzus
Lazarus Zetzner (ed.)
Agnes Smith Lewis
Sedulius & Juvencus
Orpheus; Proclus
Aeschylus
Iamblichus
Aeschylus
Manmatha Nath Dutt
Euripides; Sophocles; Aristophanes
Philo of Alexandria; Hans Leisegang (ed.)
James Darmesteter (trans.)
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Synesius of Cyrene; Nicephorus Gregoras (comm.)
Orpheus (ed. Eugen Abel)
Olympiodorus
Iamblichus (ed. Thomas Gale)
Iamblichus; Proclus; Porphyry; trans. Marsilio Ficino
Plotinus; Maximus of Tyre
Apollonius Rhodius; Orpheus; Lycophron
Julius Jolly (trans.)
Georg Bühler (trans.)
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Roger Bacon
Macrobius
Charles Francis Horne (ed.)
Jacob of Sarug; Ephrem; Isaac of Antioch; Severus of Antioch
Bar Hebraeus (Gregory Abulfaraj)
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Julius Eggeling (trans.)
Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
Philip Schaff & Henry Wace (eds.)
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
F. Max Müller (ed.)
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron
Tsukamoto Tetsuzō
Homer; Porphyry; Eustathius
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
James Legge (trans.)
Pausanias; J.G. Frazer (trans.)
Herodotus (ed. Henri II Estienne)
Textus Receptus
Thucydides
Hermann Diels (ed.)
Various Greek Scholars
Gregory of Nyssa
Thucydides (ed. Henri II Estienne)
Diogenes Laertius
Desiderius Erasmus
Pratap Chandra Roy; Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Alfred Burdon Ellis
Grace James
Max Müller (ed.) / Sayana (commentary)
King James / A.W. Pollard (ed.)
Yogi Ramacharaka (William Walker Atkinson)
Max Müller (ed.) / Sayana (commentary)
Orpheus (ed. Gottfried Hermann)
Hovhannes Zohrab (ed.)
André Dacier; Nicholas Rowe (trans.)
James George Frazer
Anonymus von Schwartzfuss
Ralph T.H. Griffith (trans.)
Joseph Stevenson, George Waring
Clement of Alexandria
Plotinus; Porphyry
Anonymous
Herodotus; Plutarch; Gemistus Plethon
F. Thureau-Dangin
Anonymous
Ralph T.H. Griffith
[Guillemain de Saint-Victor, Louis]
Arnold, Gottfried
Juan de la Cruz
Dionysius Areopagita|Ignatius|Polycarpus
Blosius, Ludwig|Seuse , Heinrich
Scheffer, Johannes
Jamblichus
Schwenckfeld, Caspar
Tscheer, Nicolaus
Blavatsky, H.P.
Rock, Johann Friedrich
Arnold, Gottfried
Dionysius Areopagita
Aldus Manutius (editor)
Plato; Ficino, Marsilio (translator)
Sedulius & Juvencus
Moses de León (attributed)
[Guillemain de Saint-Victor, Louis]
al-Samri/al-Sawi al-Isra'ili, Abu Sa'd ibn Abi al-Surur (active 13th century)
Arnold, Gottfried
Dionysius Areopagita
Gregory of Nazianzus
Tscheer, Nicolaus
King James / A.W. Pollard (ed.)
Theophylactus of Ochrid
Bar Hebraeus (Gregory Abulfaraj)
Trinitarian Bible Society
Erasmus
Various Greek Scholars
W.G. Aston (tr.)
Anonymous
Lundius, Johannes
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron
Philo of Alexandria; Hans Leisegang (ed.)
Heinrich Ritter & Ludwig Preller
Desiderius Erasmus
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Herodotus (ed. Henri II Estienne)
Iamblichus / Hermes Trismegistus / Porphyry
Diogenes Laertius
Henri II Estienne (ed.)
George Pachymeres
Frisch, Jodoc|Leopold
Cardinal Cisneros (patron)
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Agnes Smith Lewis
Anonymous
Philo of Alexandria
Philo of Alexandria; C.E. Richter (ed.)
Plato; Calcidius; Proclus; Aristotle
A.-Ed. Chaignet
Gregory of Nazianzus
Bhūdeb Mukharjī
Plato; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Zapf, Carl Gottfried, 1686-1745; Schneider, Esaias
Zapf, Carl Gottfried, 1686-1745; Schneider, Esaias
Zapf, Carl Gottfried, 1686-1745; Schneider, Esaias
Iamblichus; tr. Thomas Taylor
Sophocles
Iamblichus; ed. August Nauck
Philo of Alexandria
Apollodorus (tr. James George Frazer)
Iamblichus; ed. J.G. Kiessling
Clement of Alexandria
Plato; tr. Thomas Taylor