/lit/ - Literature

>>18401106
>it boils down to matter of faith
This is the case in all religion really, at some point you have to admit that some of what you take to be true is predicated on faith, it's true for everyone
>whether soul could exist in its permanent unchanging form
It's my belief that the soul can change because it exists within time, but it emanates from and interacts with the intellect which is unchanging and eternal. Pic related. As I said though I don't want to start debating this so I'd like to stop discussing it here since it isn't the thread for it, I guess if you're interested you can look at plotinus' cosmological model

>>18384529
a mouthful, but Late Neoplatonism taught that the Soul indeed changes in her very essence as soul.

>>16820827
>Theurgy or contemplation
the fuck you talking about
Theurgy, which Proclus wholly endorsed, originated from Iamblichus (which he got from the Chaldeans and Egyptians).
Likewise neither opposed "Plotinian contemplation".
Where they differed was in regards to the Ineffable, or twofold One.
Damascius followed Iamblichus, Simplicius sort of followed Proclus, Olympiodorus said eh, and Priscian cucked two emperors.

Pic related is the truly profound discovery.