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What is Neoplatonism?

Let's Talk Religion

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Platonus' Theology of the Undescended Self

The doctrine of the undescended self was entirely rejected by many later Neoplatonists. Platonus himself very famously describes the experience of this journey from the body and the bafflement of having actually returned back to his regular old body. He says, quote, often after waking up to myself from the body, that is externalizing myself in relation to all other things while entering into myself... I behold a beauty of wondrous quality"

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