The Seba library treats Alexandria in 6 passages, across 6 authors (including Hoeller, Stephan A., Richard Sorabji, Cicero, Marcus Tullius).
Alexandria was not a city, it was the city, the true Polis where East and West, above and below, light and darkness, met.
Hoeller argues that Alexandria functions in Jungian-Gnostic thought as the archetypal city of spiritual synthesis, the historical birthplace of the depth-psychological and pneumatic traditions flowing from Basilides, Valentinus, Plotinus, and the Neopythagoreans.
, The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead, 1982thesis
Hierocles, Neoplatonist teacher, opponent of Christianity in Alexandria, first half of fifth cent. AD … Ammonius, pupil of Proclus, teacher of Damascius, Simplicius, Philoponus … succeeded his father as head in Alexandria
Sorabji establishes Alexandria as the institutional centre of late Neoplatonism, cataloguing the succession of philosophical teachers whose work on emotion and the soul shaped the intellectual inheritance of depth psychology.
, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 2000supporting
Cum Alexandriae pro quaestore essem, fuit Antiochus mecum, et erat iam antea Alexandriae familiaris Antiochi Heraclitus Tyrius
Cicero situates Alexandria as the living philosophical environment where competing Academic traditions — those of Antiochus and Philo — clashed over questions of knowledge and the gods, rendering the city a concrete locus of ancient epistemological debate.
, De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), -45supporting
Alexandria, 194 … Athanasius, the Bishop, 194
Cassian's Conferences invoke Alexandria as a theological reference point, associating it with Bishop Athanasius and situating it within the broader map of early Christian ascetic authority.
, Conferences, 426supporting
"Prison", 5, 22. See Alexandria
John Climacus cross-references Alexandria with the concept of 'Prison' in his index, indicating that the city served as a symbolic or concrete site for penitential confinement within his ascetic framework.
, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, 600aside
Eulogius of Alexandria, 196
Jung's Alchemical Studies cites Eulogius of Alexandria as an alchemical or patristic source, locating the city within the genealogy of symbolic and proto-psychological textual transmission.
, Alchemical Studies, 1967aside