Infrequent spelling of "Plotinus" changed to the predominant "Plotinos."
Plotinus delineates the kind of life which the soul should strive to develop.
Matter here occupies the position which it has in Plotinus and in the encyclopdia of the Brethren of Purity.
But it may be well doubted if there is any disciple of Plotinus in this Society.
Origen was quite as independent a thinker as Plotinus; but both drew from the same tradition.
Plotinus states that he had reached this state "but three times as yet."
By this time Gallienus was seated on his tribunal, and Plotinus, released from his bonds, was standing by his side.
Plotinus is a mystic, then, though not at all in the sense in which the term is often misused.
Plotinus' idea of hypostasis is also important, and this notion requires exact examination.
It would have been his part to wait on the patriarch, but who was Plotinus?