Tag: Neoplatonism
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The Misunderstood Eternal – 6: Mystical Traditions: Veiled Unions, Unspoken Eternity
Among the world’s religious traditions, it is often the mystical branches that come closest to touching the eternal. Stripped of ritual obligations, institutional boundaries, and political frameworks, the mystical path tends to turn inward, toward contemplation, inward transformation, and a direct encounter with what it names as the divine. Often expressed in metaphors of light,…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 5: Islamic and Jewish Thought – Divine Simplicity, Emanation, and the Hidden Unity
As the Christian world grappled with the tension between eternity and time, Islamic and Jewish thinkers inherited many of the same questions, often through their deep engagement with Greek philosophy. What emerged was a powerful synthesis: the divine transcendence of monotheism joined to the metaphysical clarity of reason. Yet beneath this apparent resolution, new contradictions…
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The Unfolding of Truth – 3: Plotinus – Emanation and the Return to Unity
If Plato glimpsed the realm of the eternal through the Forms, fixed, timeless, and shining with intelligible clarity, Plotinus deepens the vision. In the Enneads, he presents a metaphysical unfolding of reality from a single, ineffable source: the One. This One is beyond Being, beyond intellect, beyond any distinction. It is not a being among…
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Christianity and the Structure of Being– 3: The Persistence of the Platonic Framework
From Augustine to Modernity: How Christianity Carried the Logic of Annihilation By the time Christianity emerged as the dominant religious force of the Roman Empire, the seeds of a deeper metaphysical tension had already been sown. The Christian proclamation of the eternal had fused with the Platonic suspicion of time, matter, and change. The result…
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