Plotinus


The Enneads
Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads
The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
Ennead VI, Books 1-5 (Plotinus VI)
Ennead VI, Books 6-9 (Plotinus VII)
The Heart of Plotinus: The Essential Enneads (Perennial Philosophy)
Overarching Greek Trends in European Philosophy (IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature)
The Philosophy of Cosmic Spirituality
Il-Filosofija tal-Ispiritwalita Kozmika
Plotinus (The Routledge Philosophers)
The Essential Plotinus (Hackett Classics)
Ennead V (Plotinus V)
Ennead III (Loeb Classical Library, 442)
Ennead IV (Plotinus IV)
Enneads II
Laurence Galian
The force that we invoke in The Way of Power IS the energy behind all manifestation. Another name for this energy is the 'Ontos' or the Essence of essences. The Ontos is the essential nature of anything. Plotinus, a Roman philosopher born in Egypt in 205 C.E., called this energy the First Hypostasis (literally, to cause to stand). What stands? The erection (the Point). What causes the erection? The Triangle (The Source of Mystery - Woman - that which causes to stand). ...more
Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

Colin Wilson
Plotinus (A.D. 205–270) was not a Christian, but his influence on Christian mystics was enormous; he compared human beings to the choir standing around a choir master but with their attention distracted by things going on about them, so they fail to sing in tune or in time. He held that creation was a series of steps leading away from the One (or God); he called those steps emanations. (The Kabbalists later borrowed his ideas, as William Blake was to borrow from the Kabbalah.) This is definitely ...more
Colin Wilson, The Occult

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