This week we welcome back to the show The One and Only The Prolific, the mysterious man in Turkey, the one and only Peter Mark Adams. Welcome back sir, how you doing?

Very well thank you Gordon lovely to see you again. Absolutely, absolutely. So

most important question first. How's the boss? How's Kenzi? Very well. She's

incredibly busy at the moment with some European connections. So yeah, great.

Wonderful. Nothing to complain about.

Nice.

All right, well, we are here to talk about magical, mysterious and curious

survivals, which has been a theme through much of your work and and in this

case the latest book is called I mean get this right sanctum of Kronos. I like that. Yeah, Hi Sophia. Yeah, Hi Sophia, Sanctum of Kronos. Now, what I want to open the discussion with is, I guess sitting the in the landscape for the cosmology that survived, right?

Because we can find some of it, we can find some of it in Game of Saturn,

certainly in this book.

It doesn't just survive into you know magnificent

architecture it but that's plainly evident in what we're looking at right.

So what I want to do is to kind of trace out

the thing that actually survived

before we tell the story of the survival.

So let's start with a few, these are easy leading questions, I guess.

We'll start with this one, it's my favorite.

So what's Neoplatan, Peter?

Well, it's a 19th century scholarly term that completely distorts our understanding of the development of both metaphysical and thirdical work in late antiquity.

Okay.

So what we seem to be faced with is a text-based scholarly understanding of a practical tradition that grew out of the mysteries.

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