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How do I reconcile that I have read this doctrine and believe it to be true but have no academy, no initiatic living tradition? No Eleusis, no Orphean cults, no Pythagorean circles, nothing?

What comes closest that isn't a LARP? I can't believe anything less than what was written down of Plotinus' doctrine.

>> No.18448410

>>18448404
Why do you need to join an extant tradition? Just practice on your own.

>> No.18448445

>>18448404
neo-platonism is already a quasi-religion, you will not find a religion out there which is not a bastardized version of it
but if you really want to join up something, try a gnostic group if there is one in your area or just become a catholic and follow their limited neo-platonist tradition

>> No.18448447

>>18448404
Probably Christianity. I wouldn't recommend it though.

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18448450

Just do the exercises yourself.

>> No.18448466

>>18448404
>What comes closest that isn't a LARP?
You can either come to terms with the extinction of neoplatonism and develop a private or small-scale practice OR you can comprise what you "believe" and LARP as something you don't believe.

>> No.18448698

>>18448404
Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Sunni Islam (Sufism)
Ismaili Islam
Tantric Shaivism/Shaktism

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