/lit/ - Literature

>>21668469
>The amount of times this man repeats the same writing about the soul descending into body and being Supreme in the intellectual sphere is way too much. I feel like I read this repeated every page.
This could be because, supposedly, it's one of his unique contributions to the tradition. I somewhat sceptical of this assessment. I think it's more likely that this is something that was esoterically understood through the Tradition but that Plotinus is just the first one to exoterically elucidate.