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[Anonymous No.16176566]

The reason why Emanation continues down to, and including, absolute Matter. Is because each Sphere/Hypostasis acts as [is] matter to the sphere/hypostasis above itself (image), each sphere being something 'new'/different thus giving something of itself to itself as image and in the process emanating something of itself—and all of this is good—but it's not until Matter that the mirroring is spotless and doesn't add anything to the process; [or alternatively] it is not until Body that the distinction of Matterness in itself as a non-something in itself comes about, by differentiating your Whatness with your Whoness the definiteness of this 'Whatness' is solidified and we first are embodied, into full dualism.
Thus Absolute Matter as absolute differentiation is the true spotless mirror that perfectly reflects, without adding to, the light of the One back to the Good—or alternatively, by not begetting something posterior to itself it prevents the Light of the Heavens from going anywhere but back up—immediately causing forms to never reside in matter perfectly as they do when glorifying the Spheres of Heaven, for there's no quality in Matter to attach itself to Immateriality (only the above can attach itself to the lower), therefore there is Becoming, because there is body without contemplation, or rather: Soul-Body dualism now exists in the first place (this too, in the ultimate end, necessary), the last Quality that being pseudo-Quality. For What-is returns to What-is "instantly", (the instant of Plato’s Parmenides).
Instantiation takes time, like a tree growing to its final potential, once enough of the form is actualized (it is a sin to not try reaching your full potential, which is necessary to not be reborn) the form begins to leave and the reverse process begins (For living things—aging, for all things—entropy, passing). And so there is Was and Is and Will Be.
Of course on the grander scale the Soul of the World and the Cosmic Gods by will perpetually remain hylomorphic, until all time reverses.
But this spotlessness is also one reason some timeless souls confuse the complete image (all of time) with the imager (beyond time), but perhaps it is rather the impression that it is an image that an image becomes.

All Being persists in-between the Indefinite and the Monad. Each is One.

Always remember: Fuck Gnosticism and Monism.

[Anonymous No.16176584]

bumpo

[Anonymous No.16176609]

oh look it's another born-again neoplatonist zoomie with nothing interesting to say.

you have nothing to say and don't possess a robust understanding of these topics so that's why you spam these big block passages like some faggot who never shuts up at thanksgiving

[Anonymous No.16176647]

>>16176566
>Always remember: Fuck Gnosticism and Monism.
How is this not Monism?

Also do you know what the general take by the Neoplatonists on the state proposed in The Republic? Did they genuinely believe it to be a perfectly devised Republic or did they take it to mean something else? I mean even back then they must have thought that it was some wacky stuff.

[Anonymous No.16176728]

>>16176609
I wrote this in a burst of inspiration in a single go without re-checking any Platonist book.

[Anonymous No.16176733]

>>16176728
imagine shilling zoomie neoplatonism and then capping it off with a "fuck monism", this is why I said you don't possess a robust grasp on these concepts

[Anonymous No.16176749]

>>16176728
The Muses speak through this man!

[Anonymous No.16176811]

>>16176647
Haven't read Proclus' Essays on the Republic, but in there's probably your answer.
>>16176647
>How is this not Monism?
Real Difference. The Ineffable One is beyond Sameness and Difference, Rest and Motion, Beyond beyondness, transcending transcendence.

>>16176733
I've never seen you say anything beyond ad hominems and empty contentless oneliners repeating yourself, you're so unread that you couldn't even recognize the style of the post in OP as in fact not being from any of the Neoplatonists.

SOCRATES: It is a gift of the gods to men, or so it seems to me, hurled down from heaven by some Prometheus along with a most dazzling fire. And the people of old, superior to us and living in closer proximity to the gods, have bequeathed us this tale, that whatever is said to be consists of One and Many, having in its nature Limit and Unlimitedness. Since this is the structure of things, we have to assume that there is in each case always one form for every one of them, and we must search for it, as we will indeed find it there. And once we have grasped it, we must look for TWO, as the case would have it, or if not, for THREE or some other number. And we must treat every one of those further UNITIES in the same way, until it is not only established of the ORIGINAL UNIT that IT [SINGULAR] is ONE, MANY and UNLIMITED, but also how many kinds it is. For we must NOT grant the form of the Unlimited to the Plurality before we know the exact number of every plurality that lies between the unlimited and the one. Only then is it permitted to release each kind of unity into the unlimited and let it go. The gods, as I said, have left us this legacy of how to inquire and learn and teach one another. But nowadays the clever ones among us make a one, haphazardly, and a many, faster or slower than they should; they go straight from the one to the unlimited and omit the intermediates. It is these, however, that make all the difference as to whether we are engaged with each other in dialectical or only in eristic discourse.

Can't get any more direct than this.