I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

Plotinus
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Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of the fundamental oneness and luminous aliveness of the world with the Christian dogmas of the triune God, original sin and redemption. The universe is created, animated and unified by the perpetual self-realization of what Plotinus had called "the One," what the Bible had called "the Lord," and what he calls "the superessential Light.

Erwin Panofsky, Meaning in the Visual Arts
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

Plotinus
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It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transparent matrix. Dreams and percepts and stories are perhaps cracks and irregularities in the uniform and timeless matrix. Was this what Plotinus meant by an 'invisible and unchanging beauty which pervades all things'?

Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature
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[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

Frederick Charles Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Greece and Rome, From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus
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Never did an eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

Karen Amanda Hooper, Tangled Tides
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