The Relationship Between Neoplatonic Writings and the Guide of the Perplexed

Jewish Neoplatonic texts focus on returning to intellect rather than going higher. In the case of Ibn Gabbirol, a passage that one finds actually in the theology of Aristotle comes from the Platonian tradition. The highest level as it were that one reaches is described in normally a Plotina context as sort of coming into contact with light or light imagery come in there. And so what one can connect from these return passages with this shadowing language and in the case of Isaac IsraeliShadow language throughout his descriptions of the cosmos is this vestige,. I would suggest, of this pseudo-ampeticalian tradition.