Fifth Ennead complete. Wondering about Plotinus's One | Brahman | Tao | Christian Panenthism. All encorage Apophatic thinking. Is that were similarity ends? #booksky #criticalbible #plotinus #greatbooks

And this one, is more than just positing a common set of phrases in the air. #criticalbible #Plotinus is rifing on the same Platonic understanding that Paul was incorporating into Jewish Tradition to form Christianity, no? #booksky. Plato + TANAK = Christianity

Yesterday we read 2 Cor. 5 in church. It wraps up a discussion of Jesus a Divine mediator with, "so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 5:21. Reading Plotinus' discussion about the One, and how we are on a journey to reunite with it via a mediator is familiar. #booksky #plotinus

#Plotinus is challenging, if you take him seriously. The One is mediated through the Intellect which is mediated through the Soul which has a double phase. Itself eternal but with a phase in the realm of physicality. [V.1.7] #booksky I'm taking recs 4 good lectures on this.

The One is all things and no one of them; the source of all things is not all things, but all things are from it, returned to it, and in it.

- #Plotinus, ' #Enneads' (VI.9.3)

"The One is all things and no one of them; the source of all things is not all things, but all things are from it, returned to it, and in it."
— Plotinus, Enneads (VI.9.3)

#neoplatonism #platonism #pythagoreanism #plotinus #greekphilosophy

Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing 😊

Plotinus

#fear #Soul #Plotinus #Rose

Inside the sanctuary of our mind we can do the work upon ourselves that cannot be done in public or in the company of others. We are constantly evolving and improving our character and sanctuary provides the workspace. #Humanism #Philosophy #Plotinus #HumanismChurch