Download or read book The Vision of Aridaeus written by G. R. S. Mead and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS, THE VISION OF ARIDÆUS Vol IIIThe Story of Aridæus is the most detailed and graphic Vision of Hades preserved to us from classical antiquity, and exceeds in interest even Plato's Story of Er and Cicero's Dream of Scipio, not to speak of the less known Visions of Krates and of Zosimus.It brings to a striking conclusion the instructive treatise of Plutarch, the Greek title of which may be rendered, On the Delay of the Deity in Punishing the Wicked or On the Delay of Divine Justice.Plutarch of Chæroneia, in Boeotia, flourished in the last quarter of the second century (? 50-120 A.D.). He was one of the most enlightened of the ancients, exceedingly well versed in the details of the religious philosophies and the sciences of his day, and possessed of good critical abilities; he was also a man of wide religious experience, holding high office at Delphi in the service of Apollo and also in connection with the Dionysiac Rites, and had a profound knowledge of the inner grades of the Osiric Mysteries. He was educated in Athens and Alexandria and lectured at Rome.