Plotinus

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• Plotinus' theology further promotes the relationship of Plato' ideas and gods, meanwhile, it evades the Person of God mentioned by Augustine.
• Contributing to the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus were — besides Plato (read very selectively) and the Platonist and Neo-Pythagorean commentators on his thought — a constructively critical consideration of Aristotle and his Peripatetic commentators and an influence, deep at some points, of Stoic ideas which Plotinus 'conscious and frequently expressed hostility to Stoic corporealism could not overcome. NEO-PLATONISM
• Plotinus observes, in his third Ennead, that the art of presaging is in some sort the reading of natural letters denoting order, and that so far forth as analogy obtains in the universe, there may be vaticination. Natural Vaticination and a Golden Chain
• Plotinus, however, described the body itself as an eidolon - a simulacrum or phantom - of the soul: for him, the physical body was less real than the soul, and the soul in turn less real than divine Being.
• According to Plotinus, nous is the highest sphere accessible to the human mind and thus the "objective" of contemplation. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
• Christian and Latin Christian theological paradigms in Late Antiquity are related closely with Plotinus' Neo- Platonism, their theologies are based on Plotinus' philosophy.
• Theology of Aristotle claims that he acted as the revisor of this work, in fact an adapted translation of parts of Plotinus 'Enneads IV-VI. Greek Sources in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy
• Plotinus and Porphyry had worked with such a scheme, with their metaphysic of the One, Mind, and the World-Soul.
• [156] [Footnote 152: See his life in the Augustan History.] [Footnote 153: There is still extant a very pretty Epithalamium, composed by Gallienus for the nuptials of his nephews: -- "Ite ait, O juvenes, pariter sudate medullis Omnibus, inter vos: non murmura vestra columbae, Brachia non hederae, non vincant oscula conchae."] [Footnote 154: He was on the point of giving Plotinus a ruined city of History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
• Plotinus and Porphyry felt reserve towards participation in sacrifices to propitiate the spirits.