Join us for the ninth in the Open Center’s series of international conferences on the Western Esoteric Tradition. This time we will journey to the source of the tradition, the place where Hermeticism, Gnosticism and Neo-Platonism emerged as powerful spiritual impulses, truly the birthplace of the Western Mind. Alexandria was the greatest center of learning and culture in the ancient world with its legendary library and museum, its philosophers, geographers, scientists and scholars, and its compelling historical personalities from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra.
Its long list of influential thinkers included the great Jewish philosopher Philo; the Gnostic Christian Clement; the neo-Platonist Plotinus; and the tragic Hypatia, last of the pagan lovers of wisdom. Co-sponsored with the Alexandria-Mediterranean Research Center of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the new library of Alexandria, this will be the first international conference held in the city to bring alive in the imagination of participants the most brilliant center of culture in antiquity and to address the enormous influence it has continued to exert throughout history.
There will be two post-conference journeys- one deeper into Ancient Egypt, the other into the sphere of Greek culture, as befits Alexandria. The first will go to Luxor with its temples and its closeness
to the Valley of the Kings. The second will travel to Cyprus, birthplace of Aphrodite, and home to
serene Orthodox monasteries and contemporary esotericists.
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