A Little More Whiteness, Please

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Dave Meury wrote:
> 
> 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

Yes, and we correspondences in Schelling, the Christian
Neoplatonists, and the text of Hinduism. 

>From the unmanifest all manifestations
Come forth at the coming of (Brahman's) day,
And dissolve at the coming of night,
In that same One, known as the unmanifest. ----The Bhagavad
Gita

The perfect and  beautiful dialectic. 

"The holy aardvark has dug her bed." GR.316  It has been 500
years and still the west is manufacturing LSD to reach
Nirvana while the weeping willows of Seamus Heaney dance in
the wind and spread above and below in a perfect dialectic
with scatter brained Mother earth.