*gestures below*
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miaphysite, hell I think most NYers have no clue about the greek language let alone neoplatonic beliefs on cause and effect ontology and how the effect is always leading to entropy without returning to the source
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miaphysite, hell I think most NYers have no clue about the greek language let alone neoplatonic beliefs on cause and effect ontology and how the effect is always leading to entropy without returning to the source
October 2, 2026 at 10:16 AM
*gestures below*
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miaphysite, hell I think most NYers have no clue about the greek language let alone neoplatonic beliefs on cause and effect ontology and how the effect is always leading to entropy without returning to the source
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miaphysite, hell I think most NYers have no clue about the greek language let alone neoplatonic beliefs on cause and effect ontology and how the effect is always leading to entropy without returning to the source
Then join James Anderson, comedian and Neoplatonic philosopher, for a workshop exploring creativity, magic and the strange borderline where the sacred and profane trade places.
October 2, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Then join James Anderson, comedian and Neoplatonic philosopher, for a workshop exploring creativity, magic and the strange borderline where the sacred and profane trade places.
For a moment i misread "Napoleonic" and i thought "ah yes, weakness to ice types". But then i realized it's Neoplatonic & remembered the Alexander the Great Anime in wich philosophers are the good mathematics magic-users vs evil religion magic-users. And the combining soldier-mechas, that was cool.
October 1, 2026 at 4:52 PM
For a moment i misread "Napoleonic" and i thought "ah yes, weakness to ice types". But then i realized it's Neoplatonic & remembered the Alexander the Great Anime in wich philosophers are the good mathematics magic-users vs evil religion magic-users. And the combining soldier-mechas, that was cool.
RPG elemental damage system based around the Neoplatonic theory
![The Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus rejected Aristotle's theory relating the elements to the sensible qualities hot, cold, wet, and dry. He maintained that each of the elements has three properties. Fire is sharp (ὀξυτητα), subtle (λεπτομερειαν), and mobile (εὐκινησιαν) while its opposite, earth, is blunt (αμβλυτητα), dense (παχυμερειαν), and immobile (ακινησιαν[22]); they are joined by the intermediate elements, air and water, in the following fashion:[23]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xep36sqi2h56wggkqylfdeoq/bafkreicy3wqj47fjoo2ab3d2anlkbghfsokzufau33sbkaiopnc6yp2cli)
October 1, 2026 at 7:43 AM
RPG elemental damage system based around the Neoplatonic theory
crowds were trapped in the Hippodrome and thousands killed; Procopius gave a toll near 30,000. Justinian also enforced Christian orthodoxy: pagans faced legal restrictions, Athens’ Neoplatonic school closed, and Miaphysite clergy faced periods of persecution. #byzantium #justinian
September 29, 2026 at 11:27 AM
crowds were trapped in the Hippodrome and thousands killed; Procopius gave a toll near 30,000. Justinian also enforced Christian orthodoxy: pagans faced legal restrictions, Athens’ Neoplatonic school closed, and Miaphysite clergy faced periods of persecution. #byzantium #justinian
Hello Miro ! I was wondering if you've read Timaeus and generaly to what extent were you inspired by Platonic/Neoplatonic cosmology?
September 28, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Hello Miro ! I was wondering if you've read Timaeus and generaly to what extent were you inspired by Platonic/Neoplatonic cosmology?
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This outlines some of Plotinus’s Neoplatonic sense of profusion:
kvond.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/t...
What is important in understanding Spinoza - imo - is how he developed a Degree-of-Being concept (taken from Plotinus perhaps through Augustine).
This outlines some of Plotinus’s Neoplatonic sense of profusion:
kvond.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/t...
What is important in understanding Spinoza - imo - is how he developed a Degree-of-Being concept (taken from Plotinus perhaps through Augustine).
The Cone of Plotinus: Ontologies of Profusion and Particularization
I believe it is helpful when understanding how Plotinus viewed the degrees of Being, how the problem of how the production of the Many from the One is to be resolved (referred to here), it is helpf…
https://kvond.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/the-cone-of-plotinus-ontologies-of-profusion-and-particularization/”
September 28, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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This outlines some of Plotinus’s Neoplatonic sense of profusion:
kvond.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/t...
What is important in understanding Spinoza - imo - is how he developed a Degree-of-Being concept (taken from Plotinus perhaps through Augustine).
This outlines some of Plotinus’s Neoplatonic sense of profusion:
kvond.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/t...
What is important in understanding Spinoza - imo - is how he developed a Degree-of-Being concept (taken from Plotinus perhaps through Augustine).
Sounds very neoplatonic, which I guess it is.
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As you recall, I don’t really believe in any of it anyway, but if I did want to intentionally conjure an imaginary friend, I’d be capable of better selections than the christian god imo🙏 (though who knows exactly what these particular ppl had in mind)
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As you recall, I don’t really believe in any of it anyway, but if I did want to intentionally conjure an imaginary friend, I’d be capable of better selections than the christian god imo🙏 (though who knows exactly what these particular ppl had in mind)
September 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Sounds very neoplatonic, which I guess it is.
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As you recall, I don’t really believe in any of it anyway, but if I did want to intentionally conjure an imaginary friend, I’d be capable of better selections than the christian god imo🙏 (though who knows exactly what these particular ppl had in mind)
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As you recall, I don’t really believe in any of it anyway, but if I did want to intentionally conjure an imaginary friend, I’d be capable of better selections than the christian god imo🙏 (though who knows exactly what these particular ppl had in mind)
Citizens of the world
The Neoplatonic Theurgists demythologized religion. That doesn’t mean they denied the truth and reality of myth or the gods - it means they saw the oneness of all myths and all religions.
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The Neoplatonic Theurgists demythologized religion. That doesn’t mean they denied the truth and reality of myth or the gods - it means they saw the oneness of all myths and all religions.
theurgist.substack.com/p/citizens-o...
Citizens of the world
Theurgists demythologized religion. That doesn’t mean they denied the truth and reality of myth or the gods - it means they saw the oneness of all myths and all religions.
theurgist.substack.com
September 18, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Citizens of the world
The Neoplatonic Theurgists demythologized religion. That doesn’t mean they denied the truth and reality of myth or the gods - it means they saw the oneness of all myths and all religions.
theurgist.substack.com/p/citizens-o...
The Neoplatonic Theurgists demythologized religion. That doesn’t mean they denied the truth and reality of myth or the gods - it means they saw the oneness of all myths and all religions.
theurgist.substack.com/p/citizens-o...
I was into Buddhism, but I dug a little bit deeper into the teachings, and I'm not sure anymore. I'm kinda getting into Neoplatonic semi-polytheistic theurgy, but I haven't done any rituals yet. Intellectually, I'm more of an atheist, and I should read Jung, as he comes up in modern polytheism.
September 10, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I was into Buddhism, but I dug a little bit deeper into the teachings, and I'm not sure anymore. I'm kinda getting into Neoplatonic semi-polytheistic theurgy, but I haven't done any rituals yet. Intellectually, I'm more of an atheist, and I should read Jung, as he comes up in modern polytheism.
The Greek language through time: The concept of Hellenism (Part VI)
Olympiodorus Alexandreus argues that only a grammarian is capable of imparting the knowledge necessary for learning, mastering the Greek language Particularly enlightening in terms of the subject we are examining, namely the…
Olympiodorus Alexandreus argues that only a grammarian is capable of imparting the knowledge necessary for learning, mastering the Greek language Particularly enlightening in terms of the subject we are examining, namely the…
The Greek language through time: The concept of Hellenism (Part VI)
Olympiodorus Alexandreus argues that only a grammarian is capable of imparting the knowledge necessary for learning, mastering the Greek language Particularly enlightening in terms of the subject we are examining, namely the conceptual framework of Greekizeis a definition formulated by Olympiodorus the Alexandrian (or Younger), a Neoplatonic philosopher of the 6th century AD. Following essentially the same line as Plato, who many centuries earlier had linked a good knowledge of Greek to the process of teaching and learning, the Alexandrian scholar, in his comments on…
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September 8, 2026 at 10:30 PM
The Greek language through time: The concept of Hellenism (Part VI)
Olympiodorus Alexandreus argues that only a grammarian is capable of imparting the knowledge necessary for learning, mastering the Greek language Particularly enlightening in terms of the subject we are examining, namely the…
Olympiodorus Alexandreus argues that only a grammarian is capable of imparting the knowledge necessary for learning, mastering the Greek language Particularly enlightening in terms of the subject we are examining, namely the…
the issue is you are still finding it difficult to get past a conception that doesnt involve G-d as something particular/specific or with a form. of course G-d creates. but G-d in Judaism traces to "ein sof" - Without End. i think even Neoplatonic apophatism or "negative theology" can help here
September 7, 2026 at 6:57 AM
the issue is you are still finding it difficult to get past a conception that doesnt involve G-d as something particular/specific or with a form. of course G-d creates. but G-d in Judaism traces to "ein sof" - Without End. i think even Neoplatonic apophatism or "negative theology" can help here
Does that include the Bible and related material? Because before Neoplatonic-influenced Christians became dominant in the Church, the Holy Spirit, or Ruach ha-Kodesh, inherited from Judaism was female, meaning that Christians' version was transgendered.
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Alabama’s new library rules target every book about transgender people
Libraries have until October 1 to restrict young people’s access to transgender-related books or face a state funding freeze.
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September 5, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Does that include the Bible and related material? Because before Neoplatonic-influenced Christians became dominant in the Church, the Holy Spirit, or Ruach ha-Kodesh, inherited from Judaism was female, meaning that Christians' version was transgendered.
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Some of the last Hellenic pagans lasted into the 11th century as a neoplatonic syncretic moon worshipping cult in Harran and got away with it for centuries by claiming to be the ill-defined Sabians mentioned in the Qur'an with Hermes as their prophet.
Tell me a fun fact.
September 5, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Some of the last Hellenic pagans lasted into the 11th century as a neoplatonic syncretic moon worshipping cult in Harran and got away with it for centuries by claiming to be the ill-defined Sabians mentioned in the Qur'an with Hermes as their prophet.
My thesis is that there is either a Neoplatonic/Christian theurgy cult is around Trump or all the brainstem level magical thinking of his retinue are unconsciously self organizing into something that looks sophisticated by accident.
September 4, 2026 at 9:28 PM
My thesis is that there is either a Neoplatonic/Christian theurgy cult is around Trump or all the brainstem level magical thinking of his retinue are unconsciously self organizing into something that looks sophisticated by accident.
@leftspinozist.bsky.social - Spinoza is VERY Neoplatonic in this, in how he categorizes error, knowledge, degrees-of-power/being. Using that Plotinus operating system.
If interested, you can see a lineage of the Degree-Of-Being conception in Philosophy here:
kvond.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/a...
If interested, you can see a lineage of the Degree-Of-Being conception in Philosophy here:
kvond.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/a...
Spinoza’s Degrees of Being: A History
Starting with Spinoza as the modern end, and working backwards so as to grasp the nature of at least the Spinozist panpsychist position, this is a rough delineation of a genealogy of panpsychism. S…
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September 4, 2026 at 10:45 AM
@leftspinozist.bsky.social - Spinoza is VERY Neoplatonic in this, in how he categorizes error, knowledge, degrees-of-power/being. Using that Plotinus operating system.
If interested, you can see a lineage of the Degree-Of-Being conception in Philosophy here:
kvond.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/a...
If interested, you can see a lineage of the Degree-Of-Being conception in Philosophy here:
kvond.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/a...
Spinoza built on a v. specific NeoPlatonic solution to the prob of "evil" and Being, a degree-of-being conception that came from Plotinus, then thru Augustine. Deleuze was very good on pointing this out (EiP:S), but I wrote about how it was proto-Cybernetic here:
kvond.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/i...
kvond.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/i...
Is Spinoza a Cyberneticist, or a Chaoplexicist?
In reading through Bousquet’s The Scientific Way of Warfare (aspects of which I have already engaged, here), there are pockets of useful summation that one runs into in his narrative that sim…
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September 4, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Spinoza built on a v. specific NeoPlatonic solution to the prob of "evil" and Being, a degree-of-being conception that came from Plotinus, then thru Augustine. Deleuze was very good on pointing this out (EiP:S), but I wrote about how it was proto-Cybernetic here:
kvond.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/i...
kvond.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/i...
I think it's why a lot of pagans lean into neoplatonic beliefs since they inspired christian monotheism
August 30, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I think it's why a lot of pagans lean into neoplatonic beliefs since they inspired christian monotheism
To know that you don't know, you need the very standard of knowledge you're missing. And since wisdom is self-knowledge, having that standard already makes you, in a sense, wise. Socrates' paradox, unfolded.
youtu.be/C_vbsXQqamY
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Neoplatonic Virtue: Socrates' Ignorance Is Wisdom | Reading Proclus' On Providence
YouTube video by Antonio Vargas
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August 24, 2026 at 5:28 PM
To know that you don't know, you need the very standard of knowledge you're missing. And since wisdom is self-knowledge, having that standard already makes you, in a sense, wise. Socrates' paradox, unfolded.
youtu.be/C_vbsXQqamY
youtu.be/C_vbsXQqamY
Can't believe Substack made me sick of Romanticism, which I used to love. Neoplatonic this, neoplatonic that. I feel like my interest can't be valid or seen as real or serious compared to these people if I don't engage with the philosophy associated with that era and those who talk about it.
August 22, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Can't believe Substack made me sick of Romanticism, which I used to love. Neoplatonic this, neoplatonic that. I feel like my interest can't be valid or seen as real or serious compared to these people if I don't engage with the philosophy associated with that era and those who talk about it.
Also, in the weird neoPlatonic magic vocabulary these Evangelicals use, "bride" is used to describe any young woman who has not give birth. They contain undischarged generative potential. She may very well be somekind of Vestal Virgin.
August 20, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Also, in the weird neoPlatonic magic vocabulary these Evangelicals use, "bride" is used to describe any young woman who has not give birth. They contain undischarged generative potential. She may very well be somekind of Vestal Virgin.
This is the ideology of essentialism: that there is some core essence of everything, these essences are pure, and any variation from the norm is corruption.
Plato was big on this stuff, and it’s the common thread that makes the various political manifestations of Neoplatonic intransigence so toxic.
Plato was big on this stuff, and it’s the common thread that makes the various political manifestations of Neoplatonic intransigence so toxic.
really does feel, as an ideology, like to them there is A Norm, and you can either obey The Norm and be exactly like everyone else, or you can be A Freak and not be meaningfully welcome in society, and everyone should be trying their hardest to fit The Norm
a sad view of the world!
a sad view of the world!
There seems to be a concerted effort right now to undermine the diagnosis/concept of ADHD and/or autism.
It’s probably been going on for awhile, but I’ve really seen it take hold lately, and it’s really concerning.
A lot of parallel to the undermining of gender identity and trans healthcare, too.
It’s probably been going on for awhile, but I’ve really seen it take hold lately, and it’s really concerning.
A lot of parallel to the undermining of gender identity and trans healthcare, too.
August 18, 2026 at 11:53 AM
This is the ideology of essentialism: that there is some core essence of everything, these essences are pure, and any variation from the norm is corruption.
Plato was big on this stuff, and it’s the common thread that makes the various political manifestations of Neoplatonic intransigence so toxic.
Plato was big on this stuff, and it’s the common thread that makes the various political manifestations of Neoplatonic intransigence so toxic.
When the cosmic causes all agree, you're powerless. But they usually disagree — and then your choiceis the casting vote that tips the balance. How oracles and theurgy shore up human freedom in Proclus.
Also in this: the dignity of the self-reflective soul.
youtu.be/pW3CUZ2CjfM
Also in this: the dignity of the self-reflective soul.
youtu.be/pW3CUZ2CjfM
Neoplatonic Virtue: The Casting Vote and the Mixing Bowl | Reading Proclus' On Providence
YouTube video by Antonio Vargas
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August 16, 2026 at 10:45 PM
When the cosmic causes all agree, you're powerless. But they usually disagree — and then your choiceis the casting vote that tips the balance. How oracles and theurgy shore up human freedom in Proclus.
Also in this: the dignity of the self-reflective soul.
youtu.be/pW3CUZ2CjfM
Also in this: the dignity of the self-reflective soul.
youtu.be/pW3CUZ2CjfM
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Untune the Sky: Dr. Sebastian Moro Tornese and Mr. Stephen Rego on Music and the Neoplatonic Cosmos
Watch now | The Ladder: Journeys in Platonic Mysticism Episode 38
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