Plotinus and Magic

Was Plotinus influenced by opium?

SOME justification is necessary for adding to the list of suspected opium-takers of the past. The academic game of seizing on certain similarities between the thought of a selected victim and the features supposed to be characteristic of opium dreams long ago became something of a bad habit. In the case of Plotinus (205-270 A.D.), however, grounds for the belief can be found outside his own wri...

Plotinus and St. John of the Cross: Concurrences and Divergencies

Aristotelianism and the Soul in the Arabic Plotinus

It is common for historians of medieval thought to note that the influence of Aristotle on Islamic philosophy was tinged with Neoplatonism, thanks to a text known as the "Theology of Aristotle." It is now known that the "Theology" is in fact not a work of Aristotle's but rather a paraphrase of parts of Plotinus's Enneads. Certainly, the misattribution of this work to Aristotle facilitated the s...

the plotinus’ abstraction theology

the article presents explanation and analysis of plotinus’ abstraction theology. in this theology he tries to get negative knowledge of the god. the meaning of the negation is neither of pure negation or privation but it is based on abstraction which purifies and abstracts one concept from else to attain the exact and true meaning of it. accordingly, this method of theology is the same as the r...

A \varGamma -magic Rectangle Set and Group Distance Magic Labeling

A Γ -magic rectangle set MRSΓ (a, b; c) of order abc is a collection of c arrays (a× b) whose entries are elements of group Γ , each appearing once, with all row sums in every rectangle equal to a constant ω ∈ Γ and all column sums in every rectangle equal to a constant δ ∈ Γ . In the paper we show that if a and b are both even then MRSΓ (a, b; c) exists for any Abelian group Γ of order abc. Fu...