Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by John Opsopaus, author of the new Secret Texts of Hellenic Polytheism. A venerable sage practicing a revival of ancient Greek Paganism in the fifteenth century, his plan for a spiritual rebirth of the West, a secret order spreading his ideas among intellectuals and even within the church, his hidden book discovered after his death and partly burned: these might be the elements of an exciting story, but they are from the life of George Gemistos (c.1355–1452), who called himself by the Pagan name "Plethon." He was the foremost Platonic philosopher of his time, and he based his religion on Platonism, which offered the most developed Pagan