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)
- Enéada VI, 1, 10 — A qualidade
- Enéada VI, 1, 11 — A qualidade
- Enéada VI, 1, 12 — A qualidade
- Enéada VI, 1, 13 — O “quando”
- Enéada VI, 1, 14 — O “onde”
- Enéada VI, 1, 15 — O agir e o padecer
- Enéada VI, 1, 16 — O agir e o padecer
- Enéada VI, 1, 17 — O agir e o padecer
- Enéada VI, 1, 18 — O agir e o padecer
- Enéada VI, 1, 19 — O agir e o padecer