/lit/ - Literature

>>17159005
Indeed. I could shake my fist at the anti-material hatred of the world that crept into gnostic thought by way of its main vector, Christianity, but recommending something positive and constructive does more good. Gnosticism is "on to something" because it absorbed Neoplatonism, which is the foundation of all serious western and western-adjacent metaphysics.
Start with the big names of Neoplatonism OP:
>Iamblicus
>Proclus
>Plotinus
>Sallust

>>12566395
religion + philosophy

Plotinus is the closest the Western philosophical tradition has had to describing a very explicit system of developing non-dual insight.

You could argue that figures like Parmenides, Plato, Meister Eckhart, etc. also spoke of such concepts, but none were with the rigour or explicitness of Plotinus (at least with the records we have available to us.)

So yes, you could say that he was "right", but only in the sense that any figure who teaches non-dual insight is "right" (putting him in the same category of figures like Adi Shankara, Nagarjuna, etc.) And for any aspiring Western philosopher / truth seeker, you could do a lot worse.