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What is Neoplatonism?

Let's Talk Religion

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Mysticism and Plotinus

Neoplatanism is about the human journey back to her higher essence, a kind of spiritual self-realization and a scent back to the source. Plotinus has a whole treatise in the Enyads called Against the Gnostics where he basically tears this group of early Christians apart. After all, the world is a copy of the perfect news, but in a kind of imperfect way. We are experiencing that world in an imperfect way through the mediation of time and space.

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