1678 1ed Sibylline Oracles PAGAN Prophecy Occult Philosophy RARE Jesuit Crasset

1678 1^ed Sibylline Oracles PAGAN Prophecy Occult Philosophy RARE Jesuit Crasset

Jean Crasset was a 17^th-century French Jesuit who was best known for his treatises of asceticism and philosophy. One of his many books was ‘Dissertation on the Oracles of Sibyl’. At the end of the 17^th-century several treatises were written on the Sibylline Oracles many of which focused on the pagan origins of the oracles. Crasset, according to Buitenwerf,

“firmly believed that the Sibylline Oracles were divine utterances of the Greek prophetess Sibyl.”

Crasset sought to prove that the Sibylline Oracles were nothing more than false Christian narratives, He also defended the early church fathers who wrote that the Oracles were genuinely written by Sibyls, making references to great philosophers and historians such as Suetonius and Saint Augustine and his famous ‘City of God’.

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CRASSET, Jean

Dissertation sur les Oracles des Sibylles

Paris: chez Estienne Michallet, 1678. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [12], 282
• References: Rieuwerd Buitenwerf, ‘Book III of the Sibylline Oracles and its Social Setting’
• Provenance: Handwritten – Froissard
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6.25in X 3.75in (15.5cm x 9.5cm)

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