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... wisdom . The asylum of the old tradition of the East , it was at the same time the birth - place of new doc- trines . It was at Alexandria that the school of Philo represented hellenizing Judaism ; it was at Alexandria that the Gnôsis ...
... wisdom . The asylum of the old tradition of the East , it was at the same time the birth - place of new doc- trines . It was at Alexandria that the school of Philo represented hellenizing Judaism ; it was at Alexandria that the Gnôsis ...
Page xix
... wisdom and knowledge that he was known as the " god - taught " ( 0ɛodídaктoç ) ; he was more than a mere eclectic , he himself attained to spiritual insight . The pupil Plotinus also shows all the signs of a student of eastern Raja Yoga ...
... wisdom and knowledge that he was known as the " god - taught " ( 0ɛodídaктoç ) ; he was more than a mere eclectic , he himself attained to spiritual insight . The pupil Plotinus also shows all the signs of a student of eastern Raja Yoga ...
Page xxxiii
... wisdom . It is not the gaining of something new , but the regaining of what has been lost , and above all the realization of the ever - present Deity . This is pre- cisely the same view as that enshrined in the great logion of the ...
... wisdom . It is not the gaining of something new , but the regaining of what has been lost , and above all the realization of the ever - present Deity . This is pre- cisely the same view as that enshrined in the great logion of the ...
Page xliii
... wisdom of antiquity , since the evolution of it into light free from the enigmas in which it had been before enveloped , was reserved for the divine genius of Plotinus . Of this very extraordinary man there is a long and in- teresting ...
... wisdom of antiquity , since the evolution of it into light free from the enigmas in which it had been before enveloped , was reserved for the divine genius of Plotinus . Of this very extraordinary man there is a long and in- teresting ...
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... wisdom particularly cultivated by the Indian sages . For this purposes , when the Emperor Gordian marched into Persia , in order to war upon that nation , Plotinus joined himself to the army , being at that time in the nine and ...
... wisdom particularly cultivated by the Indian sages . For this purposes , when the Emperor Gordian marched into Persia , in order to war upon that nation , Plotinus joined himself to the army , being at that time in the nine and ...
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