===== TRIAD =====

The system of Plotinus is a system of necessary EMANATION, PROCESSION, or IRRADIATION accompanied by necessary ASPIRATION or REVERSION-TO-SOURCE: all the forms and phases of Existence flow from the Divinity and all strive to return THITHER and to remain THERE.

This Divinity is a graded Triad.

Its three Hypostases - or in modern religious terminology, 'Persons' - are, in the briefest description:

1 The ONE, or First Existent.

2 The DIVINE MIND, or First Thinker and Thought.

3 The ALL-SOUL, or First and Only Principle of Life.

'Of all things the governance and the existence are in these Three.'
(Stephen MacKenna)