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Neoplatonism is polytheistic and panentheistic.

Plotinus taught that there was an ineffable transcendent " God " ( The One ) of which subsequent realities were emanations.

From the One emanates the Divine Mind ( Nous ) and the Cosmic Soul ( Psyche ).

In Neoplatonism the world itself is God 37.

This concept of divinity is associated with that of the Logos, which had originated centuries earlier with Heraclitus ( ca.

535 – 475 BC ).

The Logos pervades the cosmos, whereby all thoughts and all things originate, or as Heraclitus said: " He who hears not me but the Logos will say: All is one.

" Neoplatonists such as Iamblichus attempted to reconcile this perspective by adding another hypostasis above the original monad of force or Dunamis.

This new all-pervasive monad encompassed all creation and its original uncreated emanations.