Philaletheans

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Philaletheans

(Gr.)

Lit., “the lovers of truth”; the name is given to the Alexandrian Neo‐Platonists, also called Analogeticists and Theosophists. (See Key to Theosophy, p. 1, et seq.) The school was founded by Ammonius Saccas early in the third century, and lasted until the fifth. The greatest philosophers and sages of the day belonged to it. (TG).

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Shortly: Lit., “the lovers of truth”; the name is given to the Alexandrian Neo‐Platonists, also called Analog...