The collected philosophical treatises of Plotinus, edited and arranged by his student Porphyry into six groups of nine (enneads), constituting the foundational text of Neoplatonism.
Systematic account of the three hypostases (the One, Nous, Soul), the descent of the soul into matter, and the contemplative ascent back to the One — providing the philosophical framework that shaped Christian, Islamic, and Jewish mysticism.
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