|
Within the realm of Neoplatonic philosophy henosis is the divine work committed to by each individual toward the goal of union with the Monad, Source, or the One. In order to get closest to the One each individual must engage in divine work (theurgy) according to Iamblichus of Chalcis. This divine work can be defined as each individual dedicating their lives to making the created world and mankind's relationship to it, and one another, better. Under the teachings of Iamblichus (see the Egyptian Mysteries) one goes through a series of theurgy or rituals that unities the initiate to the Monad. These rituals are a mimicking of the ordering of the chaos of the Universe into the material world or cosmos. These rituals are to mimic the actions of the demiurge as the creator of the material world. Each individual as a microcosm reflects the gradual ordering of the universe referred to as the macrocosm. In mimicking the demiurge (divine mind or nous), one unites with the one or Monad. Thus the process of unification, of the being, and the one, is called Henosis. The culmination of Henosis is deification. Image File history File links Plato-raphael. ...
Platonic idealism is the theory that the substantive reality around us is only a reflection of a higher truth. ...
Platonism is a philosophical term usually used to refer to the idea of realism regarding the existence of universals after the Greek philosopher Plato who lived between c. ...
Middle Platonism refers to the development of certain philosophical doctrines associated with Plato during the first and second centuries A.D. One of the outstanding thinkers of Middle Platonism was Philo Judeaus (Philo the Jew) who synthesized Platos philosophy with Jewish scripture largely through allegorical interpretation of the latter. ...
Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is the modern term for a school of philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century AD, based on the teachings of Plato and earlier Platonists. ...
Platonic epistemology is the belief that knowledge is innate, the development (often under the midwife-like guidance of an interrogator) of ideas buried deep in the soul. ...
Socratic Method (or Method of Elenchus or Socratic Debate) is a dialectic method of inquiry, largely applied to the examination of key moral concepts and first described by Plato in the Socratic Dialogues. ...
Socratic dialogue (Greek ΣωκÏατικός λόγος or ΣωκÏατικός διάλογος), is a prose literary form developed in Greece at the turn of the fourth century BCE, preserved today in the dialogues of Plato and the Socratic works of Xenophon - either dramatic or narrative - in which characters discuss moral and philosophical problems. ...
Theory of Forms typically refers to Platos belief that the material world as it seems to us is not the real world, but only a shadow of the real world. ...
The Platonic doctrine of recollection is the idea that we are born possessing all knowledge and our realization of that knowledge is contingent on our discovery of it. ...
PLATO was one of the first generalized Computer assisted instruction systems, originally built by the University of Illinois (U of I) and later taken over by Control Data Corporation (CDC), who provided the machines it ran on. ...
This page is about the ancient Greek philosopher. ...
Plato, in The Republic (507b-509c), uses the sun as a metaphor for the source of illumination, arguably intellectual illumination, which he held to be The Form of the Good, which is sometimes interpreted as Platos notion of God. ...
Plato, in The Republic Book 6 (509D–513E), uses the literary device of a divided line to teach his basic views about four levels of existence (especially the intelligible world of the forms, universals, and the visible world we see around us) and the corresponding ways we come to know...
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...
The Pythagorean Monad Monad, according to the Pythagoreans, was a term for God or the first being, or the totality of all beings. ...
Iamblichus, also known as Iamblichus Chalcidensis, (ca. ...
De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum (On the Mysteries of the Eqyptians) was written by Iamblichus Chalcidensis (ca. ...
This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
The Ancient and Medieval cosmos as depicted in Peter Apians Cosmographia (Antwerp, 1539). ...
The Demiurge, The Craftsman or Creator, in some belief systems, is the deity responsible for the creation of the physical universe. ...
Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of reality. ...
Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of reality. ...
Apotheosis - the posthumous transformation of a Roman emperor into a god, Theosis - being unified with God in East Orthodox theology of salvation, Assigning divine qualities to any mortal and, usually, worshipping that person as if they were a supernatural being. ...
As is specified in the writings of Plotinus,[citation needed] the highest stage of deification is Tabula rasa, or a blank state, where the energy of the individual is returned to the Source or One and is then reamalgamated back into the Universe, thus starting the process again and bringing another part of the universe into line with the Monad (see Pantheism). In the writings of Plotinus called the Enneads the monad is of one singular expression. Division is completely missing from the Monard, source or one (see monotheism). Henosis for Plotinus was defined in his works as a meditation toward no thought (Nous or demiurge) and no division (dyad) within the individual. At that point the individual becomes the one and returned to the one or source of all things. Plotinus Plotinus (Greek: ) (ca. ...
Tabula rasa (Latin: scraped tablet or clean slate) refers to the epistemological thesis that individual human beings are born with no innate or built-in mental content, in a word, blank, and that their entire resource of knowledge is built up gradually from their experiences and sensory perceptions of the...
In abstract algebra, the free product of groups constructs a group from two or more given ones. ...
Look up Monad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Pantheism (Greek: πάν ( pan ) = all and θεός ( theos ) = God) literally means God is All and All is God. It is the view that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent abstract God; or that the universe, or nature, and God are equivalent. ...
Plotinus Plotinus (Greek: ) (ca. ...
The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...
In theology, monotheism (Greek μόνος(monos) = single and θεός(theos) = God) is the belief in the existence of one deity or God, or in the oneness of God. ...
A large statue in Bangalore depicting Shiva meditating Meditation describes a state of concentrated attention on some object of thought or awareness. ...
Nous (Îους) is a Greek word (pronounced noose), that corresponds to the English words intelligence, intellect, or mind. ...
The Demiurge, The Craftsman or Creator, in some belief systems, is the deity responsible for the creation of the physical universe. ...
The Dyad Dyad, according to the Pythagoreans, is the principle of twoness or otherness, .[1] Monad Triad Tetrad Pentad Decad Vesica piscis Ichthys Iamblichus of Chalcis ^ Hemenway, Priya – Divine Proportion pp. ...
Within the works of Iamblichus the one and reconciliation of division can be obtained through the process of theurgy. The individual is by mimicking the demiurge, returned to the cosmos to implement the will of the divine mind. Iamblichus used the rituals of the mystery religions to perform rituals on the individual to unite their outer and inner person. Thus one without conflict internal or external is united with the one. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
See Also Porphyry (Greek ΠοÏφύÏιος purple-clad) may refer to: Porphyry of Tyros (c. ...
Proclus Lycaeus (February 8, 412 – April 17, 485), surnamed The Successor or diadochos (Greek Î Ïόκλος ὠΔιάδοχος Próklos ho Diádokhos), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major Greek philosophers (see Damascius). ...
Flavius Claudius Iulianus (331–June 26, 363), was a Roman Emperor (361–363) of the Constantinian dynasty. ...
In Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic theology, theosis (Greek: , meaning divinization (or deification, or to make divine) is the call to man to become holy and seek union with God, beginning in this life and later consummated in the resurrection. ...
External links |
Feeds |
Contact