…the same. It is that part of the great journey. In the mystery systems, the great journey was from here to there. And Plotinus, who was one of the greatest of the Neoplatonic mystics, pointed out that the great journey is of the lonely to that which…

…sea. So the journey from the sea to the sea is the journey from the one to the ten. And it is infinitely repeated. But Plotinus calls it the journey of that which is alone, the one. to that which alone is the seed. The drop of water and the seed…

…more rational group of sympathies about things, about persons, about ideas. If this has begun to operate in him, we know then what Plotinus meant when he said to the young man who came to him, make philosophy thy journey. Life is a journey. And this…

…of philosophy to search for this truth. and to realize that the search for truth is the primary end of life. Therefore, Plotinus says, make philosophy your journey. And this philosophy, as Plotinus also said, is that mysterious journey of the alone to that…

…the search for truth is the primary end of life. Therefore, Plotinus says, make philosophy your journey. And this philosophy, as Plotinus also said, is that mysterious journey of the alone to that which is forever alone. It is a journey within ourselves…

…Because every solution has to arise in an unfoldment of character. Unless it is achieved, there can be no solution. Plato, Plotinus, Buddha, all held that what we now call philosophy was the science of character. That by means of philosophy, man became…

…that the essential universe is consciousness. that all of the appearances and forms that we see are merely, as Plotinus calls them, the effulgent blossoms suspended from the divine nature. That everything actually is a mystery in consciousness, forever…

…should transform his benevolence into hatreds jealousies and envies and in this way destroy that thing most necessary to himself as Plotinus explains in his essay on the beautiful actually a beautiful life is a perfect ritual and all ritualistic living is…

…psychically relaxed. Under such conditions, the availability of the mystical experience is greater than with most ordinary folks. Plotinus, the great Neoplatonist, describes in substance two authoring visions which occurred to him during his lifetime. Plotinus…

…most ordinary folks. Plotinus, the great Neoplatonist, describes in substance two authoring visions which occurred to him during his lifetime. Plotinus was a philosopher. He was an intellectual. He was a man of powerful mind and most penetrating genius. He…

…man of powerful mind and most penetrating genius. He was one of the outstanding leaders of the world of thought of his time. Yet Plotinus was not an intellectual as we would judge them today. He was not a sophisticate. He was not a worldly man. He was…

…not realized or believed, but perfectly and fully known by a total conscious experience of fact. These experiences of Plotinus certainly must be included among the great historical, mystical assurances. We know also that Plotinus and his school cultivated…

…These experiences of Plotinus certainly must be included among the great historical, mystical assurances. We know also that Plotinus and his school cultivated metaphysical disciplines, that they practiced concentration and meditation much in the spirit of the…

…And we can express our love of deity by serving beauty and producing beautiful things. Beauty, therefore, has a redeeming factor. Plotinus in his essay on the beautiful points this out very clearly, that next to the very breath of divinity, the presence…

…beyond and above suffering. It is the individual focusing upon the uncertainties rather than striving to attain to the certainties. Plotinus, the great Neoplatonist philosopher, said that only on two or three occasions during his life, for an instant or two,…

…experience them first within himself, and by so experiencing them, gain a means of positive action. If we take the case of Plotinus, the Neoplatonist, we are told that according to his own record, on only a few occasions, two or three occasions during his…

…during his lifetime, was he accorded the blessed privilege of a mystical experience. In those brief moments however Plotinus being peculiarly blessed among men actually experienced the state of human integration. He experienced man as himself fulfilling…

…is said to be associated such an experience lasted five seconds perhaps less but it was an experience not an indoctrination Plotinus could never have been vitalized had someone explained this to him for 50 years. But because it happened to him, because…

…life of the person. we come back to our original concept as taught in the East by Buddha and in the West by Plotinus. Namely, that mysticism has to be an effect, the cause of which must be equal to the effect produced. The cause of mysticism…

…world is heaven. Everything in it is magnificent, beautiful, inevitable, eternal. And then in the moment, as in the case of Plotinus, the heavens close again, and man is back again into his own small fault-finding sphere of personality. He cannot hold this,…

…soul and of the world soul, this study was developed most exhaustively by the Neoplatonists of Alexandria. particularly Plotinus and Proclus. These two great scholars, mystics and contemplators, deriving their inspirations from Plato and Pythagoras, evolved a…

…man and woman. We have it in the love of nation or country or race. Love of art, love of music. Appreciation for beauty. Plotinus' great essay on the beautiful tells us that we call a thing beautiful because it is appealing and pleasing to a beauty in…

…Empire so Julian settled down very quietly to study Platonic mysticism something that was perhaps best expressed through Proclus and Plotinus the mysticism of Plato was a strange and rather intriguing subject about which very little is known and very much…

…view of the Neoplatonic tradition and the Platonic tradition of Proclus of Athens which were behind Julian in his concept of life Plotinus was probably the greatest mystic of the ancient world he was a person of incredible integrity He was very wise in…

…Little by little we are losing the interest we once had in our own personal achievements at the expense of everyone else. So Plotinus said there is only one journey And that is the journey inward. There is only one truth and that is in the soul.…

…quiet life. peacefully lives without delusions of grandeur and gradual freedom from the great impulses of mistake from which we all suffer. Plotinus was fully aware that wealth must go. You can never solve our problems on the level of wealth. He knew that…

…footsteps of Pythagoras, Samus, and of Plato of Athens. He was also deeply interested in the neoplatonic philosophy of Plotinus, and the so-called legitimate descendant of the great platonic species, a descendant of Granskopf and Sisyphus, the neoplatonists. As…

…cannot be determined in the body itself, which cannot be estimated purely by the objective faculties. Following the ladder of Plotinus, therefore, or Bacon's Pyramid of Pan, we can see the Parasaltian speculation. namely that the physical universe and the…

…of God. man cannot hope at this time to live in that state continually, but he can hope to experience it occasionally as Plotinus did. We can hope that one or two mystical experiences in the course of a lifetime may so consecrate him that he shall…

…substance, as Paul tells us, is that instant of realization in which all things become new. This is the mystical experience of Plotinus. This is the moment in which man glimpses the infinite facts of things. And in this infinite sight, all things which…

…all his life a profound student, he had been of considerable attainment in philosophy, though he does not compare with Plato or Plotinus. Feeling he was a neo-Platonist in his own right, his great hymns to the sovereign son and the mother of the gods…

…that the essential universe is consciousness, that all of the appearances and forms that we see are merely, as Plotinus calls them, the effulgent blossoms suspended from the divine nature. that everything actually is a mystery in consciousness, forever…

…is equally true of the other schools, Neoplatonism, as it is found in Athens, in Proclus, and in Alexandria through Plotinus, Iamblichus, and other great Neoplatonists. These teachers took a theology that had descended to them from Plato principally, and they…

…and it is cultivated by the idea of storing up treasures in heaven, heaven in this case being the inner life. The Greeks, Plotinus and Proclus, point out very clearly that the soul within the individual is the power not only to lead the life into the…

…not doing what he is supposed to do. And in doing the wrong thing, he has disfigured himself. Nature, therefore, according to Plotinus, tells us to love the beautiful. And that wherever nobility or beauty exists, the soul moves towards it. Now, this is…

…the importance of being right in things. Now, the problem of the release of the soul is in a sense an experience which Plotinus in Alexandria and Proclus both mention. It is a moment, maybe, only a moment, as we find it mentioned in Havelock Ellis'…

…we discover this ultimate right this power that is much more potent than anything we know from the moment of that experience as Plotinus tells us there can be no doubt about anything that is good there can be no deviation from the path of righteousness…

…inconsequential, than it is to answer the question. Now, the whole theory of Bacon's ladder of the intellect, based largely upon Plotinus, is that the foundation of all security must arise from the knowledge of causes. Until we have solved the matter of…

…what he has outwardly seen. The intensity of this inner seeing also carried with it a dynamic which physical seeing does not carry. Plotinus points this out where he says that although in his lifetime he had only on one or two occasions been given this…

…or the labor always concerns with this. And now Mrs. Atwood goes into considerable detail in relation to Neoplatonism, quoting from Plotinus, Perklus, and many of the other mystics of North Africa and Athens, relating to the works of light in terms of…

…or the labor always concerns with this. And now Mrs. Atwood goes into considerable detail in relation to Neoplatonism, quoting from Plotinus, Perklus, and many of the other mystics of North Africa and Athens, relating to the works of light in terms of…

…high, simply cannot be understood, cannot be known, cannot be grasped by human faculties, for it remains forever in its own aloofness, Plotinus calls it, it is that which is forever alone. This no one really wished to criticize as a truth or a principle,…

…and inconsequential than it is to answer the question. Now, the whole theory of Bacon's ladder of the intellect, based largely upon Plotinus, is that the foundation of all security must arise from the knowledge of causes. Until we have solved the matter of…

…also arises among the Gnostics, and we learn that we have traces of it in Neoplatonism, in the visions and symbols of Plotinus and Proclus. Thus, you see, we have quite a confused picture. Yet this confusion is rather in the arrangement of a pattern,…

…was the infinite being, the substance of all things, the end of all seeking. Now we do not know that Plato achieved what Plotinus did through his mystical union, but we do know that he did attain that purpose which fulfills or culminates the career of…

…of union with God, This desire does not achieve the union, nor is this experience a proof of the ultimate union. Plotinus, the Neoplatonist, tells us that in his contemplations and reveries, in his great spiritual exaltation, or ecstasy, which is practically…

…his dance of life, these moments transcended all possible knowledge, all possible learning, and established an experience back within both Plotinus and Elis, that could never be shaken by any material pressure of any kind. Yet, neither of these persons…

…the natural world. But the individual is not of this. Though it may seem like plant, its root is in material things. Actually, as Plotinus tells us in his essay on the beautiful, while the roots of man are in the earth, the flower and the seed is in…

…gets in the way of our integrity time and time again. But if we become more thoughtful, if we decide to make what Plotinus called philosophy our journey, then we begin to study these different factors to find out what we are doing to ourselves or for…

…ship sailing into the unknown and the only hope we have the only reality that we have is internal conviction is the realization as Plotinus puts it that there is within each body that which is not body that is within each of us a mind that is not…

…behind the body how strong it is how thorough it can function and how it can come to assist us in the present dilemma Plotinus of course who was one of the greatest of the neoplatonic mystics was convinced that the power within the body was the savior…

…that has nothing to do with the common visionary experiences of psychics it has to do with certain deep processes within ourselves Plotinus describes the great journey of life as the journey of that which is lonely to final union with that which is…

…universal existence into a state of legal existence and a state of mystical existence. But actually they are the same thing. Plotinus, who has contributed so much to early Christian mysticism, gives us some rather valuable indications of the meaning of the…

…lures him on to a greater existence. Love of wisdom strengthens him to meet the inevitable changes of life and transition. Then Plotinus gives us some more personal things. He moves down now into what might be termed the area of personal allegiance. So he…

…the advancement of personal purposes. Where compromise exists, love is corrupted. For it cannot and must not be functioning in that way. Plotinus then goes on to give us other interesting aspects of the country. And he finally comes to love in terms of…

…We are more lonely, perhaps, than any time in the last 2,000 years. But we remember the journey of man as described by Plotinus, where he said, life is a journey of the lonely to that which is alone. In other words, the individual goes to that…

…the statement of an internal presence which breaks through for a moment and gives us a message that we must never forget. Plotinus, the Neoplatonist, said that he had illumination for only a few seconds twice during his lifetime, but that these two or…

…abstract power which dwells in the innermost and is lured out into manifestation essentially by beauty. In his essay on the beautiful, Plotinus points out that the beauty in the human soul moves outward to embrace the beauty of the world. That the human…

…eternal value and this experience itself of course has been regarded as the greatest experience to which the individual can aspire. Plotinus, the great Neoplatonist, had one or two experiences of this kind. They lasted only a moment. But in that moment,…

…become with it reality and the individual for an instant seem to tune in on that reality and become with it this with Plotinus lasted only a few seconds but once having been experienced the whole life has changed not only for this embodiment but for…

…many desires in life, will mean nothing unless it mainsprings a dynamic determination to achieve this end which is desirable. So Plotinus tells us that the development of man depends upon a series of natural disciplines imposed by society to a certain…

…normal instincts or desires this may in itself be useful but here he is again trusting his nature to a pressure which Plotinus does not primarily advocate he can see why and how the religious person might have more inducement to become rational than other…

…to become rational than other persons but this is not his answer to this problem the problem of rationality depends for Plotinus upon the platonic universe upon the great theological system of the Greeks namely actually that the universe the gods creation…

…can continue in his own ways it is very hard for man to contemplate the arduous procedure of truly rational development Yet Plotinus also tells us that this peculiar arduousness with which we have bound the concept and by which we have made discipline the…

…Can that which is beyond knowledge be known? Can that which transcends any faculty or power of our common experience be in itself known? Plotinus thought that it could be known in a way. It could be known to man by means of an impact. Man looking up…

…that these extended principles moving toward generation or moving towards productivity would present twelve archetypal forms referred to by Plotinus as effulgent blossoms suspended in space. Such being the case, we then follow the Greek thinking that these…

…She represents the highest aspects of his own now immortalized soul to which he returns. It is for this reason that Plotinus, writing to his friends, congratulates this friend because his son has come to study with him. And Plotinus says he rejoices…

…this reason that Plotinus, writing to his friends, congratulates this friend because his son has come to study with him. And Plotinus says he rejoices that this young man has resolved to make philosophy his journey, and that he also, like Ulysses, seeks…

…seashell. The story of Venus or Aphrodite and her place in the great study of philosophy is perhaps most clearly summarized by Plotinus in his essay on the beautiful. Actually Venus represents the principle of sheer and pure beauty. She is far deeper than…

…To detect abstract principles rather rather more than they could cope with as far as interpretation is concerned But according to Plotinus in his essay on the beautiful all things whatever they may be Are ruled inevitably and eternally by proportion By the…

…recognize the latent possibilities in Greek mythology as a clue to forms of basic learning. Following in the works, therefore, of Plotinus and Proclus, the Platonic success, their terms also upon measure and to a measure upon Homer. But in Homer the…

…escape from the tyrannies of these various gods and could return again up the ladder of the divinities to the primary cause as Plotinus explains this to us. But always, we must go through the God to reach that which is beyond it. We find this same…

…Eastern and Western mystics. You'll find it considerably influencing certain Sufi doctrines, and of course the Neoplatonists, especially Plotinus. And they express it symbolically, always, namely that the individual has the experience of his god, or experiences…

…supreme isolation. It is the supreme separateness. It must be the basis of all conflict, because it relates to what Plotinus calls multitude. Multitude being the experience of separateness, the experience of self and not-self, of object and subject, of being…

…to create beauty and his ability to recognize beauty, both of these powers reside in some psychic dimension of his own inner life. Plotinus, in his great essay on the beautiful, tells us very clearly that beauty is a need, a force, a power. which arising…

…some way you could transmute knowledge into insight and understanding within your own experience, within your own consciousness. Therefore, as Plotinus said to one of his young disciples, make philosophy your journey. Use the philosophic system as a guide to…

…little we can do in comparison to what we believe would be an ideal diet. The second thing that we have to have, as Plotinus tells us, is nutrition for other parts of the life. What food is to the body, beauty is to the psychic integration. The…

…rooted in the earth and he is seeking to ascend to the sky. Eternity is rooted in the sky. and is suspended, as Plotinus tells us, like an inverted tree or flower, with its effulgent blossoms revealed through the nature and appearance of the stars. So…

…seen what is in the darkness, and he has seen that it is good. And in this goodness is the end of all his fearings. Plotinus declares that on only a few occasions was he lifted up into the blessed experience of his God. But in those moments, he was…

…we may find in that instance the flash of intuition we will suddenly know why it happened then the sky will close again Plotinus the great mystic said that only on two occasions did he receive the direct impression of his God this direct impression was…

…divine plan but it is not obvious or not recorded that this attitude constituted essential wisdom and the Neoplatonists especially Plotinus and Amplicus were devoted to the concept that wisdom resulted in the development of an epiceptive mysticism the truly…

…consciousness permits it. Then Dumas takes for us, as he has with the vine, the secret of love itself. He considers, much as Plotinus did, the various kinds of affection in which man is capable. He tells something of the affection of man for his country,…

…could take a little more now from a very early time the idea of a utopia was strongly fixed in the mind of the people Plotinus approached the emperor of Rome and asked the emperor to give him a place for a city of the wise there was an old deserted…

…him this he would build a city of wisdom and the emperor was very much in favor of the idea and really practically promised Plotinus that he could have his empire because Plotinus was at that time living in Rome and he had a reputation so great and so…

…and the emperor was very much in favor of the idea and really practically promised Plotinus that he could have his empire because Plotinus was at that time living in Rome and he had a reputation so great and so noble that rich Romans left their children…

…and so noble that rich Romans left their children in his care and left him to administer the inheritances of their families Plotinus was therefore hopeful that this great city of the wise could come apart but when it was presented to the Senate they…

…mysterious happening that has become more powerful than all the ignorance of the world could defeat it is thus what we find again from Plotinus where he said that on one or two occasions for a brief moment he had been picked up into union with his God…

…of God, the love of man, the love of nature, the love of truth and of beauty. We come all the way back to Plotinus and his essay on the beautiful. This same spirit moved in Alexandria in the first century AD. It is found in practically all ancient…

…Wind, two of his supposed comedies, gives us part of the ritual. These rites unfolded according to a peculiar sequence. as Plotinus says, they opened like a flower and bore their fruit. The entire situation was so perfectly and completely ordered that in…

…and completely ordered that in some mysterious way it brought about some of the chemistry, some of the psychic chemistry implied by Plotinus in his essay on the beautiful, which we have also described. In the right sense, as in the approach of beauty, the…

…even with the greatest of magnatee and care, they came to themselves and souls. And these images of divine things, as Plotinus calls them, become strange magical agents, drawing to themselves the real principles for which they stand. that that which is in…

…and discover the ways in which it can be revealed. This is, in substance, the experience of the blessed theurgy described by Plotinus. It is this experience of the one returning to the one, the alone journeying to the alone. That which is like finding…

…he gives us an adequate working text, but we can use from him certain material, adding to it other extracts from Plotinus and some material from Amplicus on the Mysteries, and a considerable amount from the legitimate disciples of the Platonic school and…

…described by the Neoplatonists as the symbol of intelligible beauty. Now we've discussed in our last evening's discussion something of Plotinus on the beautiful. So we should begin to understand the concept of beauty as it was understood by these…

…but continued with him throughout all lives and into eternity the essential demons and the natal demons therefore were described by Plotinus and the other Neoplatonists as those parts of the soul the natal daemon that part of the soul which extends into…

…wonderful symbol. It is distinctly stated that Eurydice goes alone to visit this lonely king. Here we have the definition given by Plotinus of what constitutes the mystical journey. The journey of the alone to the alone. And in the closing part of the…

…the giants of ancient times. It is, however, a qualitative picture, one in which the strength of self over circumstance, as Plotinus calls it, is the key to man's internal peace and security and his ultimate re-identification by theology with the eternal…

Last week, we talked about Plotinus. And I told you something of the character and disposition of this remarkable man. As I pointed out, although he lived a solitary life and had no family of his own, was surrounded for the greater part of his life by…

…from his own words. better than from the discussion or analysis of his character after all this time. We know that Plotinus was one of the few of these philosophers who frankly and openly admitted that he had passed through certain mystical experiences…

…is not necessarily a compound. Because a thing in itself good may be composed of other things in themselves also good. And Plotinus gives the example of the great building. And the architect when the building is finished looks at the whole structure and…

…of his mind but to prove the sublimity of the divine plan and in this we have the use of mind the use of words and Plotinus in one of his discussions weeps a little over the sorrow of words how little words can tell how poor they are in the search…

…not in themselves but is bestowed upon them by the operation of a superior power we may go so far as to see that Plotinus is identifying the term beauty with the Christian concept of grace because beauty is a power for goodness a power for healing a…

…restoration of learning in Greece under the ample leadership of Proclus, who has been called the platonic successor. And in Rome, Plotinus, probably one of the most outstanding men of his time. I've told you many things about Plotinus, and I think perhaps…

…platonic successor. And in Rome, Plotinus, probably one of the most outstanding men of his time. I've told you many things about Plotinus, and I think perhaps you all know the story which perhaps best typifies his life. He lived in a decadent period of…

…children, if any evil befell them, and it often befell. And during the plummeting years of his life, it is said that Plotinus lived in the atmosphere of a kindergarten, that there were dozens of young people, hundreds in fact, under his care, that he…

…practices. This, of course, consummated or crowned the entire Neoplatonic system. And all of their other disciplines, as Porphyry and Plotinus also tell us, that all of the disciplines were to prepare the individual to approach the mysterious state of…

…So, whatever we do, we release some indication of the pattern, or the great mathematical radiant blossoms described by Plotinus suspended in being the wonderful geometric snowflakes of inflexible and inevitable laws which are forever pressing themselves upon…

…this tripod that the oracles of this particular sect or group were pronounced. The principal leader of the Alexandrian Neoplatonists was Plotinus, although the sect is said to have been created by Ammonius Sarchus, a slave, a carrier of birds. a man of…

…of Neoplanism. So we see the development of this school itself over a period of some 250 years, from Ammonius Sacchus and Plotinus, who were the originators or the creators of the basic concept, to Proclus of Athens, who was the last great representative…

…Now what is the essential difference, let us say, between the teachings of Plato and the new Platonism or Neoplatonism of Plotinus? It is a difference which is undoubtedly rooted in the points which we have previously made, namely that these civilizations…

…it represents the school in the closing cycle of its own brief but very spectacular existence. Deriving, however, much from Plotinus, and other legitimate members of the Neoplatonic community, Proclus unfolds what he regards as the true key to the Greek…

…course, in the mythology and in the religious beliefs of the ancient Greeks. But he follows first Plato and then Plotinus. in gradually reducing the essential elements of this mythology to a scientific system, to a philosophical pattern of conceivable…

…archetypal state of pure reason. This to a certain degree corresponds also with the ladder of illumination described by Plotinus, the Neoplatonist. For it represents undoubtedly the progressive refinement of man's consciousness and his motion from opinion to…

…by means of which he himself might experience the state of total truth. Now he saw truth not from the selfish intellectual desire, as Plotinus very clearly points out. He did not wish to be assumed to know more than other men. He was not of the type…

…express their ideas on so abstract a level of dissertation or of oration or of writing such as the Aeneid's Apropos or Plotinus that they simply were not comprehensible to the average person Thus we had three schools, all of them essentially deep, all of…

…the state of truth has discovered why he should live well and how he can live well. There can therefore be no truth, as Plotinus points out, that does not produce a change away from error in the actual life of the person who attains it. A person can…

…mind, the writer of all books. Even on this point, however, we must have a cautious attitude because we know in listing the books of Plotinus who came in a little later in North Africa, that the term book was not used then just as we use it today. It…

…was used with a bit of the Saroyan quality, which was not so well known to antiquity, because some of the books of Plotinus do not contain over a thousand words. They're comparatively short tracts, but they are still called books. Thus we are not sure…

…drew around himself one of the most brilliant academy of thinkers the world has ever known, including such minds as Plotinus, Iamblichus, and other leading thinkers of his day. Finally, to produce in Athens a little later, the glorious glittering figure…

…the chemistry was taking place within themselves. The Illuminate is working with a higher degree of chemistry. The mystic such as Plotinus, who beheld the mystery of the universe, is working with another level of this power within himself. We are all…

…If he continues in this way, he will gradually create a form of what the religious people have called the holy life, or as Plotinus called it, the way of wisdom. For the way of wisdom is nothing but the good way. It is the way of the individual…

…is equally true of the other schools, Neoplatonism, as it is found in Athens, in Proclus, and in Alexandria through Plotinus and Iamblichus and other great Neoplatonists, these teachers took a theology that had descended to them from Plato principally, and…

…is not doing what he is supposed to do and in doing the wrong thing he has disfigured himself nature therefore according to Plotinus tells us to love the beautiful and that wherever nobility or beauty exists the soul moves towards it now this is very…

…the importance of being right in things. Now the problem of the release of the soul is in a sense an experience which Plotinus in Alexandria and Proclus both mentioned. It is a moment. baby only a moment and we buy it mentioned in have a lock…

…we discover this ultimate right this power that is much more potent than anything we know from the moment of that experience as Plotinus tells us there can be no doubt about anything that is good there can be no deviation from the path of righteousness…

…in various ways. Perhaps their descriptions are all tinctured by their own personal developments. But still they have sensed as Plotinus did the tremendous power of that which can be experienced occasionally in the inwardness of things. Plotinus mentions that…

…still they have sensed as Plotinus did the tremendous power of that which can be experienced occasionally in the inwardness of things. Plotinus mentions that for one instant he was aware of reality. For a moment the great gates opened and then they closed…

…succeeded or failed. In either case, alone. Therefore, perhaps the entire quest of the Grail is best summarized in the words of Plotinus, who observed on occasion that the way to truth was the journey of a lonely person to that which is eternally alone.…

…he is serving or uniting with others that do not know either instead of working towards that which does know. So Plotinus as a Neoplatonist almost fairly summed up this particular situation, namely that the enlightenment, the next coming of truth, comes in…

…facsimiles of their superiors or those larger powers from which they are suspended in this sense perhaps the suggestion of Plotinus the neoplatonist who describes the gods as effulgent blossoms from which the worlds are suspended these effulgent blossoms like…

…infinite reality. Now in the development of Neo-Alexandrian mysticism, we have an interesting point that is brought out by Plotinus and Proclus. Namely, that mysticism, which is an internalization of faculties, and which releases certain esoteric forces within…

…which we have given considerable thought and consideration. The purposes of the mysteries, according to such initiates as Plotinus, Proclus, Iamblichus, Ammonius, Sackus, and others, was, it's very simple, that the individual should learn factually, truly, beyond…

…who was born first into this world learned the mystery of it. And it was, I believe it was Porphyry, may have been Plotinus, who said on one occasion that in human life, birth physically was the human being coming out of the womb into a body.…