Armstrong, A. H.
Plotinus, Enneads II (1966)
This and similar ideas are common to most kinds of Gnosticism : cp. Irenaeus Adv. Haer. I. 29 (a non-Valentinian system) and Clement of Alexandria, Strom. IV ch. 13, 89) (Valentinus).
This and similar ideas are common to most kinds of Gnosticism : cp. Irenaeus Adv. Haer. I. 29 (a non-Valentinian system) and Clement of Alexandria, Strom. IV ch. 13, 89) (Valentinus).
The spontaneous, unreasoning (though supremely intelligent) character of the creative activity of Intellect and higher soul is something on which Plotinus several times insists, against Jews, Christians and simple minded Platonists who supposed that God…