Plotinus on The Intellectual-Principle, Beauty, and the One
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- In this heady video, hear a good deal of analysis of the first of Plotinus's Enneads, and learn about the three hypostases, his anti-Gnosticism, and how Porphyry preserved his mentor's biographical details. What is a "Proficient?" Plus, watch me thumb through the greatest children's book of all-time, "A Story of Mankind," by Van Loon -- and as usual, see some clips from the back-yard and neighborhood walks.
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Thank you so quintessentially - it is like a new guardian angel just popped up in my space. I have the enneads and have been reading here and there for many years - and i was blown away with this presentation ….rev. 22:17 …”COME” “if you WISH - THE FREE GIFT….and here you be! WOW ….like I remind myself if you cant dig up at 3 WOWS in your day then you are missing the FREE GIFT ….then at the end you just square rooted my soul for you read the greatest QUOTE “ IF YOU DONT FIND YOURSELF BEAUTIFUL ACT LIKE A CREATOR OF A STATUE …”. This quote has accompanied my question…as beauty - to see the FACE -to leave the body and enter this space has been a childhood QUIJOTA. Passion- then i found hydrangea flower - at 3 years old and thought this was the face of GOD Because it was blue like SKY- THEN i was blown away with the perfection of dance - ballet - Fred and ginger -sacred geometry - quantum physics - WOW - today i feel some answers bestowed ! GREAT EXPLAIN - best ever on this mysterious tremendous - THE DIVINE PASSION! And guess what - i bump into a PASSION FLOWER- called QUINTESSENCE and it gives a passion fruit and is also in Spanish called “ LOS CLAVOS DE CRISTO “ and to me it looks like a dodecahedron - which is the sacred 5 element that represents ETHER and the PENTAGRAM ….which in the KABBALAH is the ADAM KAMON- THE PRIMARY PERFECT - WHICH IS THE METATRON ANGEL - CHRIST- YES THE ROD AND STAFF! ..
God became man, that man might become God.
St. Athanasius.
I’ll let godward and Paul-talk read it for me and I’ll just interpolate. This will leave me time for internet porn and social media flirting.
If Plotinus was not a Christian he is certainly God inspired.
I feel the exact same when I read it. It's amazing.
To continue the Lenten theme, check out Stabat Mater by Pergolesi. Would make good outro music, too. Somber mood for looking Godward.
I know that Strabat Mater from that documentary on Beauty that Scruton did a couple years ago -- it is great. Maybe not as good as "I am the church, you are the church, we are the church togetherrrrrr" like we sing at the Methodist church LOL
Solid episode.
just discovered the channel
Nice. Hope you find some things to enjoy!
@@GodwardPodcast its wonderfulll, im hoping for a video on schopenhauer metaphysics
@@MarcoSilesio not easy for me!!
-Aarvoll is the man for Schopenhauer
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Plotinus probably strays too close to gnosticism, but it is interesting nonetheless
This is interesting: trisagionseraph.tripod.com/Texts/Plotinus5.html
But yeah I know what you mean. He's certainly not an orthodox religious guy, but some of what he's doing seems... "godward."
@@GodwardPodcast Indeed, the genuine search for wisdom and truth seems to be. Thanks!
Ironic because he hated gnosticism lol
When you’re speaking to yourself in public wear earplugs and hold your mobile in your hand. It works for me. Sure people get suspicious but as long as I have plausible deniability I’m good. If they want to fuck with me l’ll pretend to be schizo and have a shout down argument with an imaginary interlI’ll even go so far as throwing in some situational irony to thatillicit laughter just to watch them experience the pain of suppressing it. Teach them to mess with a feral realitist.
Onward godward
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What he proposes is impossible though. Man is not God. Paul nailed it: "Don't let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ"
Good comment (I think) -- it's hard to know, ultimately, if these transition-period philosophers knew & rejected Christianity, or if this was the best they could do to understand it, etc. I do think the fact that we see an aspiration in the direction of Beauty & Goodness & Truth in the Platonists (and neoplatonists) is probably a step in the direction of Logos... but, yeah. Good comment.
@@GodwardPodcast His aspirations are noble and might even be achievable - but for a while... You've covered this brilliantly in your Romans episodes so my comments are really superfluous.
On the contrary he nails it. The connection between creator and creation was Christ. Plotinus offers up man to God. I think of it as a lightening bolt searching for the arc from earth to fulfil its potential