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...with Christ) as an intermediary between Himself and His Creation. The Neoplatonist Plotinus concurred: Nature may need God, but it was a pretty one...
...in that playing with superlatives which has entertained so many minds from Plotinus to the Hegelians with the de- lusion that such negative terms as t...
...his execution, at the very hour when it was taking place in Rome; nor that Plotinus, when far away from Porphyrius, was aware of his friend’s intentio...
...be. “I know all those that scholars have discussed, for I have just reread Plotinus. I am questioning you as a Catholic might, and I ask if you think ...
...al considerations of tea and toast, we were all imbibing a dissertation on Plotinus from the attic lips of S.T.C. Suddenly a cry arose of “Fire—fire!”...
...s, nevertheless, acquitted, upon an impeachment brought against her by one Plotinus. Licinia stood possessed of a beautiful property in the sub- urbs,...
... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 XXV THE DELPHIC ORACLE UPON PLOTINUS . . . . . . . . . . 278 A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD 281 I FATHER AND CHI... ...It seems that I must bid the Muse go pack, THE TOWER 195 Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend Until imagination, ear and eye, Can be content with a... ...nd there sing his last song. And I declare my faith: THE TOWER 199 I mock Plotinus’ thought And cry in Plato’s teeth, Death and life were not Till ma... ... shore, Winding sheet and swaddling — clothes. XXV THE DELPHIC ORACLE UPON PLOTINUS BEHOLD that great Plotinus swim, Buffeted by such seas; Bland Rhad... ...y Oisin on the grass; There sighed amid his choir of love Tall pythagoras. Plotinus came and looked about, The salt flakes on his breast, And having st...
...nd 131 Emerson wealth is the butt and merriment of heroism. Heroism, like Plotinus, is almost ashamed of its body. What shall it say then to the suga... ...en “blasted with excess of light.” The trances of Socrates, the “union” of Plotinus, the vi- sion of Porphyry, the conversion of Paul, the aurora of B... ... intellect.” This band of grandees, Hermes, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Plato, Plotinus, Olympiodorus, Proclus, Synesius and the rest, have some- what so ... ...need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare; then in Plutarch; then in Plotinus; at one time in Bacon; afterwards in Goethe; even in Bettine; but ...
... term ‘Sophist’ would hardly have been applied to the greater names, such as Plotinus, and would have been more often used of a professor of philosoph...
...d recherchés. There was a modern Platonist. He quoted Porphyry, Iamblicus, Plotinus, Proclus, Hierocles, Maximus Tyrius, and Syrianus. There was a hum...
...d his- torian, lived 233-305 (?) A.D. He was a pupil of the neo- Platonist Plotinus. (8) Author of a geographical lexicon, produced after 400 A.D., a...
...out guiding charts, the secret deeps of Proclus 267 Thomas de Quincey and Plotinus; he had laid down buoys on the twilight, or moonlight, ocean of Ja...
...ng, and is no longer sub- ject to death.’”[271] In the vision of God, says Plotinus, “what sees is not our reason, but something prior and superior to...