Life of Pythagoras and Sentences on the Intelligibles
Sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes (Aphormai pros ta noeta)
Porphyry (ed. Lucas Holstenius)
Latin
Porphyry c. 3rd century CE · published 1630
219 pages
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Unlock the secret history of the West's most influential mystic in this profound synthesis of Pythagorean biography and Neoplatonic metaphysics. Porphyry reveals how the soul can break its earthly bonds through mathematical symbolism, ethical rigors, and the 'philosophical death' to return to the infinite One.
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