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it's called crude neoplatonism

>>15890097
>it is not the responsibility of the individual to liberate all beings in the universe.
No, indeed, it's the duty of all individuals in unison.
>false individuation
How does god fall into illusion?
If God didn't, why did God will there to be plurality if plurality is bad?
And if God is First how is he not before even Oneness itself?

Mother, highest of the gods, immortal Night, how, tell me this, how must I establish the stout-hearted rule of the immortals?
>Tell me, how can it be that all things are one and yet each is separate?
Night replies: Surround all things with unspeakable aither, and in the middle place the sky, and therein the boundless earth, and the sea, and therein all the constellations, which the sky has surrounded. But when you have stretched a firm bond over everything, suspend a golden chain from the aither.

So when he had taken in the might of first-born Erikepaios
he held the form of all things in his hollow stomach,
and he mixed in his limbs the power and strength of the god,
and for this reason everything in turn was gathered inside Zeus,
the wide aither and the glorious height of the sky,
the seat of both the barren sea and the glorious earth,
and great Ocean and Tartarus the lowest part of the earth
and the rivers and the boundless sea and everything else
and the blessed immortal gods and goddesses,
and as many as were in existence and as many as would be after,
became one, and in the stomach of Zeus he engendered it about to be scattered.