...Luc Brisson; Michael Chase This memorial essay on the French historian of philosophy Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) explores his life and work. Starting out from an ecclesiastical background and education, Hadot's interest in mysticism led him to study the late Greek Neoplatonists Plotinus and Porphyry...

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... are no fisher of men. You sneer at the Living Bread. Then Una appeared atop a rock. The Devil saw her and hustled over. The ground shook, Una impassive. The Devil sat on its haunches, adopting the shape and purple hue of imperial porphyry. The two conversed in a language, incom- prehensible to Ioan, composed...