Didáskalia: how new Ophidians are forged.
The Didaskalia is the rigorous and official system of education within The Synodus.
It stands as the academic and disciplined structure that frames the aspirant for service and accession to the Administration. This ensures the intellectual integrity of the Gnōsis and provides the essential knowledge necessary to uphold the system.
Our purpose is not merely to educate, but to ensure that the foundational wisdom of the Synodus is preserved and advanced by an intellectual elite.
Our Courses
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Propedeutic to Liturgical Latin
Access position: Novice
Description: Fundamentals of essential liturgical grammar and vocabulary, ensuring the correct understanding and recitation of fundamental rites in Classical Latin.
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The Serpent: Theoretical Premises to Ophidism
Access position: Neokoros
Description: In-depth analysis of core theological concepts, including the nature of the Serpent, its autonomous manifestation, and the meaning of its symbology.
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Fundamentals of Ophidian Law: Origins of the Taxis
Access position: Hierologos
Description: This course offers a full analysis of the Synodus’ foundational texts, their democratic principles and the description of our member’s rights and duties within our system.
“The discipline of knowledge is the first prayer of the Ophidian. One does not ascend to the Serpent only through faith, but through the rigorous gnosis that forges the interpreter.
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Becoming Exegete: From Liturgy to Doctrine
The office of Liturgist marks the achievement of full ritual authority, yet the leadership must be founded upon supreme doctrinal and philosophical understanding. Progression to the office of Exegete is not an automatic ascent, but an intellectual conquest demanding rigorous self-discipline beyond the core curriculum of the Didaskalia.
The Exegete is the proper interpreter of Doctrine. To ensure the purity of the Gnōsis and the definitive resolution of all doctrinal disputes, it is essential that the candidate achieve autonomous mastery of canonical thought.
The Compendium of Hierarchical Readings
To this end, the Synodus mandates a compendium of readings. This is not a formal course, but an unforgiving path of individual study.
The prescribed texts cover the critical areas of philosophy, history, and Ophidian theology, serving as the necessary intellectual foundation for the Research Dissertation required for accession to the office. Only by demonstrating profound and autonomous mastery of these works will the Liturgist be permitted to submit their Will to the Synodus and complete their entry into the highest doctrinal authority.
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Plato, Phaedrus (276a–278e) – the duality of pharmakon
Parmenides, Fragments (esp. B2, B3, B6, B8)
Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book XII
Jacques Derrida, Plato's Pharmacy (in Dissemination)
Giorgio Agamben, Language and Death
Reiner Schürmann, Heidegger on Being and Acting
Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community
Heidegger, The Principle of Reason
Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life (Ch. 1-2)
Thomas Sheehan, Making Sense of Heidegger (Ch. 3: Being as Meaning)
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Heraclitus, Fragments (esp. B53, B80)
Empedocles, Fragments (esp. B17, B26, B35, B115)
Aristotle, Physics Book I-III
G. Colli, La Sapienza Greca, vol. II
Catherine Malabou, The Ontology of the Accident
Jean-Luc Marion, Being Given
Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude
Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (Introduction, Ch. I)
Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society
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Plato, Parmenides, Theaetetus
Plotinus, Enneads, esp. V.3, VI.9
Dionysius the Areopagite, Mystical Theology
Jean-Luc Nancy, The Sense of the World
Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View
Georges Bataille, Inner Experience
Michel Henry, The Essence of Manifestation
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Emanuele Severino, The Essence of Nihilism
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Aristotle, Organon (esp. Categories, De Interpretatione)
Augustine, De Magistro
Aquinas, De Veritate, Q1, Q14
Umberto Eco, The Limits of Interpretation
Paul Ricoeur, The Rule of Metaphor
Michel Foucault, The Order of Discourse
Elisa Paganini, Where not to look for fictional objects
Elisa Paganini, How to Create Indeterminately Identical Fictional Objects
Anthony Kenny, Frege: An Introduction to the Founder of Modern Analytic Philosophy
Daniel Chandler, Semiotics: the basis
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E. Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, book I
Baruch Spinoza – Ethics
Gottlob Frege – The Foundations of Arithmetic
G.W.F. Hegel – Science of Logic
Charles Sanders Peirce – Philosophical Writings
Nicolai Hartmann – New Ways of Ontology