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>All cherrypicked from a book that misinterprets the whole Neoplatonic tradition from a Christian standpoint, yeah, no, you are not a Neoplatonist
You prefer Thomas Taylor?
I have that as well.
>the One of man [or the summit and flower of his nature,] is he more true man, that of soul is the more true soul, and that of body the true body. Thus also The One of the sun, and The One of the moon, are the more true sun and moon.
>Neither The One, nor 'All Things' acords with the nature of The One. For these are opposed to each other, and distribute our conceptions. For if we look at the simple and The One, we destroy its immensely great perfection; and if we conceive all things subsisting together, we abolish The One and the Simple.
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. . . is also at the same time all things. But the first is above the One and All Things, being more simple than either of these.

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