A Little More Whiteness, Please

Jeremy Beacock jeremyb at wrox.com
Tue Oct 26 11:28:17 CDT 1999


 
> 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.

heh.

Also like the progressive emanations of the Sephirot from Ein Sof.

 



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