/lit/ - Literature

An "essay" I began writing as an atheist at age 19 or 20.
I was no longer atheist afterwards.
Now I'm a "Neoplatonist", since apparently my discovery was just Platonism that I had zero knowledge of beforehand.

>>16359292
That's not wrong since as I said the One is the three, the three are the One. They do not compose the one, but you can't deny their true reality in the fact that all Being possesses these three qualities. Everything is One and many, the one doesn't admit the many multiplicity doesn't admit oneness, without unity you could only have one them, thus there is third Arche that is both what is one and many but also the cause of how everything can be one and many. And not just absolutely simple or infinitely infinite.
The Platonism that Pierre Grimes accept is the simplified Platonism that Simplicius and Olympiodorus and sort of Proclus (in paradox) defends. Damascius and Iamblichus and Plotinus 'sometimes' all agree that this how reality is structured. That is: the transcendent absolutely simple Monad atop Being with increasing difference and plurality ending with Unintelligible Matter. But nobody calls the One the Monad, rather they admit the two Principles of Limit and Unlimited that exist after the Ineffable One which then together composes Being (aka Being, Life, Intellect). But how does two opposites unite? There's a real difference between causing individuality and plurality, likewise these are extremes. What Damascius finally accepts is the 'Inbetween', like the Golden Chain of Zeus that allows "all to be one yet separate".
He also calls this the Abyss since it is so hard to see yet its effect is more evident than all things' oneness or plurality (the fact that all things are one AND many), it is what makes knowledge and manifestation possible, for the Monad admits no distinction and the Dyad accepts no unity. But the Mixed is that very arche of Unity of Opposites.
But you can as Simplicius do simply collapse these into the One, as they all do. But that collapses the One itself into the Ineffable that you can't even call One, but this is maddening "heresy", which Proclus in silence understood but couldn't accept (therefore the silence).
Which is also what Damascius tells us to do, since it is incomprehensible yet logic/reason demands it given the state of What Is (Being). If we say the One is all there is then we dishonor him his infinite power and deprive Being of Life.
Reading Sophist and Philebus demands this interpretation, even Proclus talks about the Unified as coming directly from the One buy somehow it slips his mind that this makes it equal to the Limited and Unlimited, not secondary to them. Not making these equal leads to an infinite regress, because the Limited and Unlimited requires the Mixed to not infinitely be in conflict, but how can the higher be dependent of the lower. And you can't say in this system that the One unites the two principles, since this makes the One the Mixed but not the Limited and Unlimited, but that leads to another conundrum, one being that the One becomes twofold. Again Proclus in his Commentary to the Parmenides admits all these things, but Damascius completes the puzzle.

Too many posts since I, OP, vallen fren to pray to Asclepius.
Anyway, as I said about Plutarch who lived in Late first century, can be said about Iamblichus.
They couldn't read late or even middle Egyptian. Yet their depiction of Egyptian myth has a 1 to 1 correspondence to to those 4000 year old texts we NOW can read in our true age of enlightenment (as opposed to the false one).
Iamblichus De Mysteriis clearly show Iamblichus was Initiated into Egyptian Mysteries since he himself could probably not read the hieratic Egyptian that was dying out thanks to Christian prosecution, that the same core theosophy (real one) that we now read in THOUSANDS of walls and papyri was still being practiced in 300 AD.
Plato did not teach any initiation nor did Plotinus. For therm the hieratic contemplation if you reach the peak of many false Arches, then you will be a new root of your own. Like they were. And there are many extatic moments in the ladder of love, most who think themselves enlightenment merely have beheld the Soul of the World, a beautiful goddess, Isis, but still "only" an echo, and being a woman she confounds to believe we found the One and become monists.
That we now have all these texts dating a millennia older than the oldest Veda, is a merely a blessing. And if course if actually are offered initiation into a legitimate hindu school that's of course a bonus, but again not necessary, the true initiation is the to attain the grasping of the Good. The true triune God.

>being transitory makes it valueless

>>14931206
Wake! Wake! O [deceased], wake! See what your son Horus has done for you, hear what your father Geb has done for you; he has set your foes beneath you for you. Go up and bathe in the Lake of Life; what is evil on you will be purged in the Lake of the Firmament. You have come into being complete as any god; your head is Re, your face is Wepwawet, your nose is the Jackal, your lips are the Twins, your ears are Isis and Nephthys, your eyes are the twin children of Re-Atum, your tongue is Thoth, your throat is Nut, your neck is Geb, your shoulders are Horus, your chest is He who pleases the spirit of Re, the great god who is in you, your flanks are Hu and Khopri, your navel is the Jackal of the Double Lion, your back is Anubis, your belly is the Double Lion, your arms are the two sons of Horus, your back is the Extender of the Sunshine, your legs are Anubis, your buttocks are Isis and Nephthys, your feet are Duamutef and Kebhsenuf, and there is no member in you which lacks a god; raise yourself, [deceased]!"

>>14897683
1.Pink Floyd...
2. Hmmm, eeh
3. Aaah?

>>14830953
>God does not play dice
OH CONTRAIRE MON FRÈRE