The Triple-Barbed Divine Armor of the Soul
A Holoeidetic Analysis of Fragment 2 of the Chaldean Oracles
When I first encountered Fragment 2 of the Chaldean Oracles, with its strange imagery of "triple-barbed strength" and "clamorous light," I dismissed it as another piece of arcane magical instruction from late antiquity. But as I've lived with these words, turning them over in my mind during long walks and quiet mornings, I've come to see something profo…
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