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The Gods Should Come To Him
- Porphyry describes Plotinus claiming the gods should come to him, not he to them, shocking his contemporaries.
- This illustrates Plotinus’s stance that philosophy supersedes ordinary cult practice.
Plotinus’ Divine Guardian Story
- Porphyry recounts an Egyptian priest summoning Plotinus's guardian Daimon in the Temple of Isis.
- The summoned being was a superior god, showing Plotinus had a divine guardian rather than an ordinary spirit.
Nous As Unified Divine Mind
- The Nous (divine intellect) is the first emanation and contains all forms as a unified, timeless knowledge.
- The Nous is the knower, the known, and the act of knowing in one integrated reality.