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)
Triad (MacKenna)
- 3 OF THE PARTS OF THE SOUL.
- 3 SECOND ENNEAD, BOOK FOUR. Of Matter. (Da Matéria)
- 4 OF THE DIFFERENCE OF THE PARTS. AND OF THE FACULTIES OF THE SOUL.
- 4 THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK SIX. Of the Impassibility of Incorporeal Things.
- 6 FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK TWO. Of the Nature of the Soul.
- 7 FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK THREE. Problems About the Soul.
- 9 FIFTH ENNEAD, BOOK TWO. Of Generation and of the Order of Things that Follow the First.
- A psyche no Neoplatonismo
- A.H. Armstrong (inglês)
- Agamben: Damascio