The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus's Mysticism

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mazur, Zeke
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Colección:Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies.
Temas:
Plotinus.
Plotinus
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Editor's Preface to the Present Volume
  • Author's Acknowledgments
  • Editor's Note on References, Editions, and Translations
  • Abbreviations
  • Tables
  • Author's Preface
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: The Gnostic Background of Plotinus's Mysticism
  • 1 The Fundamental Problem of Plotinian Mysticism
  • 2 Problems with the Prior Scholarship on Plotinian Mysticism
  • 3 Platonizing Sethian Visionary Ascent and the Historical Context of Plotinian Mysticism
  • 4 The Current State of the Research
  • Chapter 2 The Structure of Plotinus's Ascent to Mystical Union with the One
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Phase A: Catharsis
  • 3 Phase B: Mystical Self-Reversion
  • 4 Phase C: Autophany
  • 5 Excursus: A First Meditation on the Identity of the Mystical Subject
  • 6 Phase C2: Self-Unification
  • 7 Phase D: Annihilation
  • 8 Excursus: Second Meditation on the Identity of the Mystical Subject
  • 9 Excursus: On Beauty
  • 10 Phase E: Union with the One
  • 11 Vision and Light
  • 12 Ennead VI.9[9].11.22-25 [See Complete Passage in Appendix A8]
  • 13 Ennead VI.7[38].36.10-26 [Appendix A16]
  • 14 Ennead V.3[49].17.28-38 [Appendix A19]
  • 15 Excursus on V.3[49].17-28
  • 16 Ennead V.5[32].8.18-21 [Appendix A12]
  • 17 Convergence of Center-Points
  • 18 Sexual Intercourse
  • 19 Excursus on VI.7[38].35.23-32
  • 20 Rapture or Spatial Displacement
  • 21 Excursus on VI.7[38].35.36-40
  • 22 Excursus on VI.7[38].36.15-18
  • 23 Cultic Praxis
  • 24 Phase E2: Desubjectification
  • 25 Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 The Identity of Prenoetic and Hypernoetic Subjectsin Plotinus
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Plotinian Ontogenesis
  • 3 The Identity of the Hypernoetic Subject with the Prenoetic Efflux
  • 4 The Convergence of Prenoetic and Hypernoetic Ecstasy
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 "The Way of Ascent is the Way of Descent": The Mechanism of Transcendental Apprehension in Platonizing Sethian Gnosticism
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Structure of Ascent in the Platonizing Sethian Ascent Treatises
  • 3 Mystical Self-Reversion and Autophany in Gnostic Visionary Ascent
  • 4 The Faculty of Transcendental Apprehension in Platonizing Sethianism
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 Conclusion: Dissolving Boundaries
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Platonists and Gnostics in Alexandria and Rome: Biographical and Socio-historical Reflections
  • 3 Philosophical Contemplation and Ritual Praxis
  • 4 Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography

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