/lit/ - Literature

>>21666273
The more Plato the better. Its a good foundation for the Enneads. Read what interests you.
>>21666042
I intend to read Proclus' Elements at some point after this, with or without lit. Possibly not for a while though as I'll have course work to read soon.

Having come through Abrahamic theology I find the vision of "repentance" (the ability of the individual soul to re-ascend) propounded in IV.8 very uplifting. Plotinus offers a soteriology that befits the grandeur and love of God that is espoused in the Abrahamic faiths but denied in their salvific schemes. Even though we might labor and suffer under the delusions of the value of the sense realm, we can always rise again by turning our souls sight back to the intellectual/Divine realms, memory of past sufferings as beung a motivating factor or the beauty and goodness in creation. It makes me wonder, given the decline of Christianity of late, if harsher forms of soteriology that involve eternal punishment are generally less stable, at least when in comparison with something more stable like Indian santana-dharma.