He was undoubtably the biggest influence on Plotinus in his development of Neoplatonism, although little is known about his own philosophical views.

Two of Ammonius's students-Origen the Pagan, and Longinus-seem to have held philosophical positions which were closer to Middle Platonism than Neoplatonism, which perhaps suggests that Ammonius's doctrines were also closer to those of Middle Platonism than the Neoplatonism developed by Plotinus ( see the Enneads ), but Plotinus does not seem to have thought that he was departing in any significant way from that of his master.

Plotinus is noted as the founder of Neoplatonism ( along with his teacher Ammonius Saccas ).

He learned theurgy from Maximus of Ephesus, a student of Iamblichus ; his system bears some resemblance to the Neoplatonism of Plotinus ; Polymnia Athanassiadi has brought new attention to his relations with Mithraism, although whether he was initiated into it remains debatable ; and certain aspects of his thought ( such as his reorganization of paganism under High Priests, and his fundamental monotheism ) may show Christian influence.

* Plotinus, founder of Neoplatonism

Some have compared Plotinus ' teachings to the Hindu school of Advaita Vedanta ( advaita meaning " not two " or " non-dual "), and has been elaborated upon in J. F. Staal, Advaita and Neoplatonism: A critical study in comparative philosophy, Madras: University of Madras, 1961.

Averroes rejected Avicenna's Neoplatonism which was partly based on the works of neo-Platonic philosophers, Plotinus and Proclus, that were mistakenly attributed to Aristotle.

In Neoplatonism, the Intelligence ( Nous ) is the true first principle — the determinate, referential " foundation " ( arkhe )— of all existents ; for it is not a self-sufficient entity like the One, but rather possesses the ability or capacity to contemplate both the One, as its prior, as well as its own thoughts, which Plotinus identifies with the Platonic Ideas or Forms ( eide ).

He drew particularly from Plato, the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, and Stoicism, which he altered and refined in light of divine revelation of Christian teaching and the Scriptures.

* Marsilio Ficino ( 1433 – 1499 ) Influential Italian humanist philosopher who revived Neoplatonism and was a leader in the Renaissance ; translated all of Plato's and Plotinus ' works into Latin, as well as many Neoplatonic authors and the Corpus Hermeticum.

The foundations of this theory can be traced to Neoplatonism and the philosopher Plotinus in particular.

Neoplatonist philosophers such as Plotinus ( 204 / 5 – 270 AD ) used the term " Logos " in ways that drew on Plato and the Stoics, but the term Logos was interpreted in different ways throughout Neoplatonism, and similarities to Philo's concept of Logos appear to be accidental.

Plotinus was a student of Ammonius Saccas and they were founders of Neoplatonism.

A supreme example of this form of thinking is the Neoplatonism of Plotinus and his successors.

Michaelson ( 2009: p. 130 ) identifies what he perceives to be the origins of nondualism proper founded in the Neoplatonism of Plotinus within Ancient Greece and employs the ambiguous binary construction of " the West " different to ' the East ', refer Edward Said | Saïd's utilization of the discourse of ' Other | The Other ' in Orientalism ( book ) | Orientalism ( 1978 ):

As a philosophical notion, it is most clearly found for the first time in the West in the second century C. E, in the Neoplatonism of Plotinus and his followers.

In the Enneads of Plotinus, a founder of Neoplatonism, everything is contemplation ( theoria ) and everything is derived from contemplation.

He initially studied under Anatolius of Laodicea, and later went on to study under Porphyry, a pupil of Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism.

As a speculative theory, Neoplatonism had received its highest development from Plotinus.

Longinus did not embrace the Neoplatonism then being developed by Plotinus, but continued as a Platonist of the old type and his reputation as a literary critic was immense.

Of the first two Longinus was a pupil for a long time, but Longinus did not embrace the Neoplatonism then being developed by Ammonius and Plotinus, rather he continued as a Platonist of the old type.

In Neoplatonism, especially of the Renaissance, a hieroglyph was an artistic representation of an esoteric idea, which actual Egyptian hieroglyphs seemed to the Neoplatonists to be.

In the Hellenistic tradition, the influential philosophical school of Neoplatonism was founded by the Egyptian philosopher Plotinus in the 3rd century CE.

A teaching prevalent in the West is mathematics, which was greatly added to by Pythagoreanism and Philosophy ( Platonism, Neoplatonism ), the oldest non-mythic ( besides Egyptian ) Western wisdom teachings.

The Demiurge of Neoplatonism is the Nous ( mind of God ), and is one of the three ordering principles:

Consequent discussions of Christian Gnosticism included pre-Christian religious beliefs and spiritual practices argued to be common to early Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism, Greco-Roman mystery religions, Zoroastrianism ( especially Zurvanism ), and Neoplatonism.

Hence sectarians and followers of gnosticism were first rejected by the Jewish communities of the Mediterranean ( see the Notzrim 139 – 67 BCE ), then by the Christian communities and finally by the late Hellenistic philosophical communities ( see Neoplatonism and Gnosticism ).

Bowersock in particular ), Julian's paganism was highly eccentric and atypical because it was heavily influenced by an esoteric approach to Platonic philosophy sometimes identified as theurgy and also Neoplatonism.

* Dimitar Y. Dimitrov, " Sinesius of Cyrene and the Christian Neoplatonism: Patterns of Religious and Cultural Symbiosis ," in Mostafa El-Abbadi and Omnia Fathallah ( eds ), What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria?

As far as is known, his writings may be classified into philosophical ( interpretations of Aristotle, Porphyry, and others, translations of Petrus Hispanus and Thomas Aquinas, and defenses of Aristotelianism against the recrudescence of Neoplatonism ) and theological and ecclesiastical ( partly concerning the union and partly defending Christianity against Muslims, Jews, and pagans ), in addition to numerous homilies, hymns, and letters.

The Stoics also spoke of the logos spermatikos ( the generative principle of the Universe ), which is not important in the Biblical tradition, but is relevant in Neoplatonism.

* John M. Dillon, " Pleroma and Noetic Cosmos: A Comparative Study " in Neoplatonism and Gnosticism ( 1992 ), R. T. Wallis, ed., State Univ.

Apart from writing the Aids to the Study of the Intelligibles ( Sententiae Ad Intelligibilia Ducentes ), a basic summary of Neoplatonism, he is especially appreciated for his Introduction to Categories ( Introductio in Praedicamenta ), a very short work often considered to be a commentary on Aristotle's Categories, hence the title.

Vedanta ( Advaita Vedanta ), Ayyavazhi, shamanism, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, Kashmir Shaivism, Sant Mat / Surat Shabd Yoga, Sufism, Druze, Kabbalah, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Rosicrucianism ( Esoteric Christian ), Eckankar, Ascended Master Teachings, etc.

* Studies in Neoplatonism: Ancient and Modern, Volume 6, Wallis & Bregman ( Editors ), SUNY Press, ( 1991 ), Chapter: Negative Theology in Gnosticism and Neoplatonism by Curtis L. Hancock p. 167 ISBN 0-7914-1337-3

The physical plane ( actually hyperplane ), physical world, or physical universe, in emanationist metaphysics such as are found in Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Hinduism and Theosophy, refers to the visible reality of space and time, energy and matter: the physical universe in Occultism and esoteric cosmology is the lowest or densest of a series of planes of existence ( hyperplanes that are said to be nested ).

Examples of esoteric cosmologies can be found in Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Nagualism, Nagualism ( Carlos Castaneda ), Tantra ( especially Kashmir Shaivism ), Kabbalah, Sufism, the teachings of Jacob Boehme, The Urantia Book, the Sant Mat / Surat Shabda Yoga tradition, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, The Cosmic Tradition of Max Theon and his wife, Max Heindel ( The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception ), elements of the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, Meher Baba, the Fourth Way propounded by Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, PaGaian Cosmology and many current New Age teachings, to give only a few examples.

Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD ) () was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism.

* Origen, disciple of Ammonius Saccas, founder of Neoplatonism, is exiled in Caesarea.

* Ammonius Saccas renews Greek philosophy by creating Neoplatonism.

Pythagorean and Platonic philosophers like Plotinus and Porphyry condemned " Gnosis " that would later characterize Gnosticism ( see Neoplatonism and Gnosticism ) for their treatment of the monad or one.

There the Septuagint translation had been made ; there that that fusion of Greek philosophy and Jewish religion took place which culminated in Philo ; there flourished the mystic speculative Neoplatonism associated with Plotinus and Porphyry.