A Little More Whiteness, Please

[Dave Meury]

Terrance F. Flaherty [Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

"The One is all things and not a single one of them."
Enneads 5.2.11.1, in The Essential Plotinus, trans. O'Brien.
So the soul, when it brakes its downward plunge into the
bowl of multiplicity and evil and succeeds in returning to
its own true reality, must not rest, but "strike forward yet
a step" into mystical reabsorption in the One. see Plotinus
Enneads 6.9.9.9 and 6.9.9.11

see Enneads 1.3.20 for the dialectical power of the Soul.

"of whos soule Jhesu Crist have mercy. Amen."  Chaucer

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Thanks Terrance,

As I said, I am not familiar with the subtleties of Plotinus' thought but I 
was referring to the analogy he uses to describe his cosmology.  At the top 
or center is an unmoving light, out from which source everything flows. 
 Sounds similar to the big bang theory and also describes the 
eye-atop-the-pyramid symbol we have stamped on our dollars.

I like that soul's "downward plunge" from the light into multiplicity --  
 why it's, it's . . . like gravity pulling down a rainbow.

Dave