/lit/ - Literature

>>16595378
>Even the gods cannot prevent his becoming this, for he has become their Self. Now, if a man worships another deity, thinking: "He is one and I am another," he does not know.
>either/or

>>16198396
Like "everything is relative" is true because the axioms of definitions/truth statements always preclude themselves, even if they would prove themselves (not just if they would disprove themselves).
Language is not reality.

Just like a circle drawn isn't actually a circle, not just external knowledge is inhibited by Becoming, but dianoetic thought itself.
The highest is paradoxical and beyond reason.

>>16183202
>An infinite past is absurd
no

>the matter of the body is continually replaced
>I remain as the body dies every day
>and I am not supposedly distinct from the body
At best I am the pattern of the parts, not the parts.
Body as in matter, is never sensed, we never know the particles (that which supposedly truly is), but the "hylomorph" of them and something else, what is DNA if not keys?

>>16128909
All of them.
>>16128995
>In its center he set a soul, which he extended throughout the whole body,

I found this gem, in Proclus' Theology of Plato, hesitatingly affirming Damascius' conclusions about the One.

>We endeavour therefore to know the unknown nature of the first principle, through the things which proceed from, and are converted to it; and we also attempt through the same things to give a name to that which is ineffable. This principle, however, is neither known by beings, nor is effable by any one of all things; but being exempt from all knowledge, and all language, and subsisting as incomprehensible, it produces from itself according to one cause all knowledge, every thing that is known, all words, and whatever can be comprehended by speech. But its unical nature, and which transcends all division, shines forth to the view dyadically in the natures posterior to it, or rather triadically. For all things abide in, proceed from, and are converted to the one. For at one and the same time, they are united to it, are in subjection to its union which is exempt from the whole of things, and desire the participation of it.

Are Neoplatonism and mysticism literally magic? Will I gain powers from learning about them? Will I be able to fly? Live forever?

Where do I start with this guy? Is there a chart for his works?