tion of the second Abrahamism which ended the late Classical world, it was home

to great men like Iamblichus. Hailing form a clan for priest-chiefs, Iamblichus
taught at Apameia, a site which is today being ravaged by Mohammedan vandals aid
ed and abetted by the sister Abrahamisms. After all one point where the Abrahami
sms see eye to eye it is the destruction of the heathens and their sites. Iambli
chus was a key link in a great chain of tradition from the yavana sage Pythagora
s. Indeed, as Gregory Shaw pointed out in his paper Platonic Siddhas, Iamblichus c
ould be seen as a siddha among the yavana-s. In the Lives of Philosphers, Eunapi
us Sardianus states that he performed certain secret rituals. Regarding that a r
umor is thus provided:
O master, most inspired, why do you thus occupy yourself in solitude, instead of
sharing with us your more perfect wisdom? Nevertheless a rumor has reached us th
rough your slaves that when you pray to the gods you soar aloft from the earth m
ore than ten cubits to all appearance; that your body and your garments change t
o a beautiful golden hue; and presently when your prayer is ended your body beco
mes as it was before you prayed, and then you come down to earth and associate w
ith us. [Translated by WC Wright]
His epithet most inspired is clearly related to his status as the cognate of the s
iddha-s among the yavana-s. This is reflected in his ontology of the gods which
can be compared in its theoretical foundations to that of tantra-s of the Hindu
siddha-s. On one hand, he was the intellectual successor of Porphyry that famous
critic of the second Abrahamism who had been thrashed by a mob of Christians in
Palestine. On the other he was the teacher of Aedesius who in turn was the teac
her of emperor Julian, who for a brief moment in history almost reversed the flo
w of the second Abrahamism. Iamblichus along with Proclus, that last sage among
the yavana-s, preserved traditions of Pythagoras that mark the pinnacle of yavan
a knowledge, a height not scaled by other peoples of the ancient world. From the
fragments of their work we hear of the yavana heroics in solving that ancient p
roblem which goes back to the common ancestor of the yavana-s and the rya-s the s
quaring of the circle or the quadrature of the circle. One of the last yavana he
athen philosophers Simplicius, who was hounded by the avapjaka Justinian had to fl
ee along with his fellow heathen yavana-s to the Sassanian court of Kushru. At t
he treaty of 533 CE concluded between the Iranians and the avapjaka-s it was enjoi
ned that they should be allowed to return to their homes and practice their heat
hen rituals. However, we hear nothing of them thereafter suggesting they were ei
ther silenced by continued persecution or killed. It was this Simplicius who pre
served a fragment of Iamblichus wherein we hear of the methods of the yavana mahp
urua-s in achieving the famed quadrature.
Iamblichus points out that a method for squaring the circle was first presented
by Sextus the Pythagorean and handed down to his successors. He says that Nicome
des achieved the same using a curve known as the quadratrix. The same was achiev
ed by Archimedes using the Archimedean spiral. Whereas, Apollonius is said to ha
ve used the curve he termed the sister of the conchoid, which is the same curve
as the quadratrix used by Nicomedes. Further, he mysteriously states that Carpus
used a curve arising from