Religious Studies PhD Student @ UVA, Charlottesville symmetria.substack.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3mjruy2v36s26I play a bit here with the categories of "Inclusive" and "Exclusive" Monotheism using Proclus-inspired criteria, where the degree of peculiarity/uniqueness directly tracks with transcendence, i.e. the common is less transcendent than the unique. symmetria.substack.com/p/yhwh-alone https://symmetria.substack.com/p/yhwh-alone18 Apr 2026 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjruy2v36s26https://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3mgv2c2ztd22fI continue my commentary on @hubner.likes.earth's Theological Common Minimums, focusing on the next three: Maxim 4: Each God is complete in their divinity. Maxim 5: No God can be reduced to another. Maxim 6: In their own way, each God is in every God. https://symmetria.substack.com/p/commentary-on-the-theological-common-f5612 Mar 2026 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgv2c2ztd22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3mg4bvzvsrk2pWherein I engage with parhypostaton and Steven Dillon on “the one of the soul” and the places where our agency and the Gods’ agency meet. https://symmetria.substack.com/p/who-is-the-true-agent02 Mar 2026 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg4bvzvsrk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3maiyzgup522hLight the Darkness Could Not Know: A Proclean Reading https://symmetria.substack.com/p/light-the-darkness-could-not-know21 Dec 2025 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3maiyzgup522hhttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3m7e5lwaa6k2vIn the World but not of the World: Thoughts on Antonio’s “The Ruler of the Universe” https://symmetria.substack.com/p/in-the-world-but-not-of-the-world06 Dec 2025 23:26 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7e5lwaa6k2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3m6ru5je3s22oThoughts on Roberts Avens’ “Henry Corbin and Suhrawardi’s Angelology” from a Proclean POV It's never just "One-to-Many" https://symmetria.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-roberts-avens-henry-corbin29 Nov 2025 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ru5je3s22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3m4fzxbtfbc24My experience of Guillermo del Toro’s take on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” was like watching a myth unfolding before my eyes. This is my exegesis of that myth. The Angel of Death Saves: A Platonic Reading of Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” https://symmetria.substack.com/p/the-angel-of-death-saves30 Oct 2025 13:10 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4fzxbtfbc24https://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3m3hzxzd4xs2pCommentary on the Theological Common Minimums: Theological Maxims 1, 2, and 3 The commentary is on these three from @hubner.likes.earth's Manifesto: 1. There is no God but the Gods. 2. There is no divinity outside the Gods. 3. Every God is All God. https://symmetria.substack.com/p/commentary-on-the-theological-common18 Oct 2025 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3hzxzd4xs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3m35uxiqge22pNew post is up! Two things concern me here: 1. The idea of “untheorizable phenomena” and how such phenomena can be seen as the premier sign of a God’s presence. https://symmetria.substack.com/p/commentary-xxv14 Oct 2025 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3m35uxiqge22phttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3m2fjumxvis2z“Will we welcome the new ways in which the Gods may reveal themselves to us? Are we prepared to express new myths and develop new rites that honor the Gods' accent? Are we open to the new names with which they may reveal themselves?” - @hubner.likes.earth https://moradadoguara.art.blog/2025/09/16/surregionalismo-e-topofania/04 Oct 2025 21:32 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2fjumxvis2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3lyzx2y7ia22tTime is a God Review and Thoughts on Antonio Vargas’ “Time’s Causal Power: Proclus on the Natural Theology of Time” https://symmetria.substack.com/p/time-is-a-god17 Sep 2025 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyzx2y7ia22thttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3lwjiip7n2c2p“Given this particular book’s importance to my current understanding of Platonism, I decided to re-read it, and write a review, with thoughts appended.” Theism just is Polytheism: Review and Thoughts on Steven Dillon’s “Polytheism: A Platonic Approach” https://symmetria.substack.com/p/theism-just-is-polytheism16 Aug 2025 13:37 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwjiip7n2c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3luuxqy4oss2dFlavours of Reversion: Review and Thoughts on Eliade’s “Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return” https://symmetria.substack.com/p/flavours-of-reversion26 Jul 2025 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3luuxqy4oss2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/timmodryoid.bsky.social/post/3lusleyxc6s2d"I am not sure that such a thing [Idolatry] ever really existed before the modern age. ... But now, in the wake of Christendom’s disintegration, it is worth asking whether we have at last succeeded in inventing idolatry." - D. B. Hart, "Exit, pursued by Voltaire – Part the Third"25 Jul 2025 17:33 +0000at://did:plc:456c24y4eex3k5jbdvx3fbft/app.bsky.feed.post/3lusleyxc6s2d