…level, they know something about. And we get a certain confirmation of this by the greatest of the neoplatonic philosophers, Plotinus, who says that everything in the intelligible world, which is much the same as the ideal world of Plato, everything…

…came when he woke up in the middle of the night perceiving a light so intense that it caused him to swoon away. Plotinus entered several times into the light and was, as he says, swallowed up in divinity. Dante describing paradise as being illumined as…

…St. Paul's, of course, is by no means a unique case. We find, for example, in the case of the Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus, who had in the course of his life, several of these profound mystical experiences, he tells us that they were all associated…

…but which sums up, from his own experience, much of what Plato had said 500 years earlier. in regard to the ideal world. Plotinus says, everything shines in the world of pure intelligence. In the world of sense, the most beautiful thing is fire. So that…