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Dec. 28th, 2005 07:00 pmI was poking around in Proclus yesterday and came across something that might be of interest to pagans today who have to purchase statues of the Gods from any old place, and perhaps worry that they lack the "charge" of a statue that had been blessed at a temple or even made to order by some powerful theurgist.
Apparently in a lost work called Peri Agalmatôn, or "On Statues" -- although the term agalma actually means two-dimensional images too -- Iamblichus argued (according to Photius) that "statues [and images of the Gods generally] are divine and full of divine participation. And this he demonstrates to be the case, not only of such as are fashioned by an occult art, or those which are denominated heaven-sent, through the immanifestness of the art by which they were made [i.e., naturally shaped stones and pieces of wood] -- for these are of a celestial nature -- but also of such as are fashioned by common artists, for money," (my emphasis).
Apparently in a lost work called Peri Agalmatôn, or "On Statues" -- although the term agalma actually means two-dimensional images too -- Iamblichus argued (according to Photius) that "statues [and images of the Gods generally] are divine and full of divine participation. And this he demonstrates to be the case, not only of such as are fashioned by an occult art, or those which are denominated heaven-sent, through the immanifestness of the art by which they were made [i.e., naturally shaped stones and pieces of wood] -- for these are of a celestial nature -- but also of such as are fashioned by common artists, for money," (my emphasis).
