Ik zat dit te lezen en ik weet dat Plato via Plotinus een belangrijke inspiratie is geweest voor het Christendom maar dit verband is wel heel exemplarisch. Komt uit de grot allegorie van Plato (de Staat, 518c). De “bekering” of “omkering naar het Goede”.
October 5, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Ik zat dit te lezen en ik weet dat Plato via Plotinus een belangrijke inspiratie is geweest voor het Christendom maar dit verband is wel heel exemplarisch. Komt uit de grot allegorie van Plato (de Staat, 518c). De “bekering” of “omkering naar het Goede”.
read Hegel right now
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plotinus
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51636/51636-h/51636-h.htm#c404
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plotinus
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51636/51636-h/51636-h.htm#c404
October 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
read Hegel right now
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plotinus
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51636/51636-h/51636-h.htm#c404
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plotinus
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51636/51636-h/51636-h.htm#c404
When people come with interest in OCIA I just ask them, totally open-ended, how they arrived at their curiosity. I hear amazing things. One recently mentioned the Epstein Files (i.e. the reality of evil) and another young man brought up Plotinus and Nabokov in the same sentence.
October 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM
When people come with interest in OCIA I just ask them, totally open-ended, how they arrived at their curiosity. I hear amazing things. One recently mentioned the Epstein Files (i.e. the reality of evil) and another young man brought up Plotinus and Nabokov in the same sentence.
It’s basically like garbled Neoplatonism, if Plotinus was replaced by L. Ron Hubbard and had way more explicit antisemitism
October 4, 2026 at 6:25 AM
It’s basically like garbled Neoplatonism, if Plotinus was replaced by L. Ron Hubbard and had way more explicit antisemitism
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October 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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For everything that looks to another is under spell to that: what we look to, draws us magically. Only the self-intent go free of magic. Hence every action has magic as its source, and the entire life of the practical man is a bewitchment....
-- Plotinus, Ennead IV, 4:43
-- Plotinus, Ennead IV, 4:43
October 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
For everything that looks to another is under spell to that: what we look to, draws us magically. Only the self-intent go free of magic. Hence every action has magic as its source, and the entire life of the practical man is a bewitchment....
-- Plotinus, Ennead IV, 4:43
-- Plotinus, Ennead IV, 4:43
But how are they expecting anyone to teach Plato and Plutarch without delving into Plotinus, Iamblichus and Proclus?
Don't give me The World of Forms or the Allegory of the Cave if you're not giving me ritual magic and theurgy, too.
Don't give me The World of Forms or the Allegory of the Cave if you're not giving me ritual magic and theurgy, too.
October 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
But how are they expecting anyone to teach Plato and Plutarch without delving into Plotinus, Iamblichus and Proclus?
Don't give me The World of Forms or the Allegory of the Cave if you're not giving me ritual magic and theurgy, too.
Don't give me The World of Forms or the Allegory of the Cave if you're not giving me ritual magic and theurgy, too.
The Enneads
Plotinus
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October 1, 2026 at 10:33 AM
The Enneads
Plotinus
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.. “We are not separated from the divine; we are only separated from perceiving it.”
~ Plotinus
~ Plotinus
October 1, 2026 at 10:11 AM
.. “We are not separated from the divine; we are only separated from perceiving it.”
~ Plotinus
~ Plotinus
Well there's one strand from Parmenides through Plato, Plotinus, Avicenna and so on which is looking for metaphysical principles to explain the universe and then people identify them with God because this town ain't big enough for the both of them
September 30, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Well there's one strand from Parmenides through Plato, Plotinus, Avicenna and so on which is looking for metaphysical principles to explain the universe and then people identify them with God because this town ain't big enough for the both of them
An update for our age with regard to Plotinus' insight that "it is not necessary for one who is reading to be consciously aware that he is reading – indeed, it is especially then that he reads intently". 🫠
"Words do not blast stim at the rate we enjoy today. Words are old, older than TikTok. Back then, a human would read, 'Fireworks exploded above two (or more) trad-attractive nudes copulating on a sandy beach,' and the reader would have to imagine that in their mind."
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How to Read Good or Maybe Great
“First, accept how fun reading isn’t. Words do not blast stim at the rate we enjoy today. Words are old, older than TikTok. Back then, a human would read, ‘F...
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September 29, 2026 at 9:06 AM
An update for our age with regard to Plotinus' insight that "it is not necessary for one who is reading to be consciously aware that he is reading – indeed, it is especially then that he reads intently". 🫠
read Hegel right now
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plotinus
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51636/51636-h/51636-h.htm#c404
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plotinus
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51636/51636-h/51636-h.htm#c404
September 29, 2026 at 2:00 AM
read Hegel right now
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plotinus
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51636/51636-h/51636-h.htm#c404
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plotinus
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51636/51636-h/51636-h.htm#c404
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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).
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
September 27, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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
It's a matter of debate whether Plotinus ever met Origen of Alexandria. Imagine that meeting. The Platonic philosopher who detested his own body talking to a prelate who believed the divine light shone out in the body of a beaten & despised criminal. To be a fly on the wall of that particular stoa.
September 27, 2026 at 8:48 PM
It's a matter of debate whether Plotinus ever met Origen of Alexandria. Imagine that meeting. The Platonic philosopher who detested his own body talking to a prelate who believed the divine light shone out in the body of a beaten & despised criminal. To be a fly on the wall of that particular stoa.
Plotinus pushes past Plato’s Good into a silence where being ends. It is Ein Sof before the first flicker; Lao Tzu’s nameless Tao. Stop climbing. Collapse into that One. Beyond Demiurge and ego, only an absolute, blinding stillness remains.
#Simon #philosophy #gnostic #kabbalah
#Simon #philosophy #gnostic #kabbalah
September 25, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Plotinus pushes past Plato’s Good into a silence where being ends. It is Ein Sof before the first flicker; Lao Tzu’s nameless Tao. Stop climbing. Collapse into that One. Beyond Demiurge and ego, only an absolute, blinding stillness remains.
#Simon #philosophy #gnostic #kabbalah
#Simon #philosophy #gnostic #kabbalah
read Hegel right now
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plotinus
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51636/51636-h/51636-h.htm#c404
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plotinus
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51636/51636-h/51636-h.htm#c404
September 25, 2026 at 10:00 AM
read Hegel right now
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plotinus
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51636/51636-h/51636-h.htm#c404
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Plotinus
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51636/51636-h/51636-h.htm#c404
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
— Plotinus
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
— Plotinus
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September 25, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
— Plotinus
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
— Plotinus
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
— Plotinus
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
— Plotinus
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September 25, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
— Plotinus
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
— Plotinus
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Galaxy brain is Ibn Arabi gets it from Plotinus, the same mix that produced Origen and the Alexandria catechetical achool
September 23, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Galaxy brain is Ibn Arabi gets it from Plotinus, the same mix that produced Origen and the Alexandria catechetical achool
From the archive: "Learning to Read the Signs of Heaven: Plotinus on the Art and Philosophy of Divination", by Max Wade #Philosophy #Philsky
Learning to Read the Signs of Heaven: Plotinus on the Art and Philosophy of Divination
From the archive: "Learning to Read the Signs of Heaven: Plotinus on the Art and Philosophy of Divination", by Max Wade
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September 23, 2026 at 12:56 AM
From the archive: "Learning to Read the Signs of Heaven: Plotinus on the Art and Philosophy of Divination", by Max Wade #Philosophy #Philsky
I submit that #Booksky A Tale of Two Cities is chock full of mummies recalled to life, and that one of the mummies is Plotinus. I don’t remember HOW I recognized Plotinus in it years ago. But Plato, I remember, I recognized as the plane tree in the courtyard. Other mummies are there too.
September 22, 2026 at 11:52 PM
I submit that #Booksky A Tale of Two Cities is chock full of mummies recalled to life, and that one of the mummies is Plotinus. I don’t remember HOW I recognized Plotinus in it years ago. But Plato, I remember, I recognized as the plane tree in the courtyard. Other mummies are there too.
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
September 21, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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
September 21, 2026 at 2:57 PM