The Perfective Rites and Other Writings of Alexander Wilder

This is the fourth volume of a series of Collected Writings of Alexander Wilder 410 pages Preface and Index. The 56 Wilder articles here include 8 from Johnson's The Platonist and Blibliotheca Platonica with Wilder's series Platonic Technology which is a glossary of 265 terms important in Greek Philosophy. Other articles include Bacchus the Prophet-God Paul the Founder of Christianity Hebrew and Christian Occultism The Religions of Ancient Greece and Rome and A Study of Plato's Phaedo. Wilder was one of the best students of Platonism and Ancient History of his time and there is much information on the Eleusinian Cabeirien Bacchic/Dionysian Egyptian and Mithraic Mysteries. He was editor of H.P. Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled and she held that only Wilder and Thomas Taylor had a deep intuition on Platonic subjects.