8. Then Poemander said to me, Do you understand this vision and what it means? I shall know, said I. Then said he, I am that light, the mind, thy God,1 who am before that moist nature which appeared out of darkness; and that bright and shining word from the mind is the Son of... Continue Reading →
One faulty implication of Plotinus' here is that he maintains a principle distinction and truly duality between soul and body, rather than a monic dynamic. He holds that matter is merely fashioned by, and presumably possessed by soul, and is therefore maintained as a composite of matter and form until the soul departs (being the unifying principle between form and matter, a glue) and the matter disintegrates.
On the weight of good and evil as principles fundamental to reality and their classical conventions in reality.
Breaking Nous 