/lit/ - Literature

>>16360067
sure, Maximus the Confessor perhaps uses such language but it conflicts with christian doctrine (the three persons of the trinity are ontologically identical). The Henads are before/beyond any actual activity or process, the process is made manifest in the Intelligible Triad.
If go by Plotinus, there's the Indefinite that proceeds to the farthest extent of difference (matter), then turns back or is turned back (same thing in the ultimate sense) to the farthest height of Being, that is, the sun of the Intelligible world, aka the Good.

The Henadic "Triad" is the the unmanifest precondition for the whole process of all reality, it is simultaneously only One and paradoxically three that immediately becomes the Intelligible Rriad: Emanation and Return. Into the cave and out of the cave and back in again. Christianity does not see beyond the One-Being, they are in essence middle platonic in that they combine the One and Being, not really admiting a "divide" betweem essence and super-essentiality.
'Creation' is unnecessary for you, God did it, for all intents and purposes, "because why not"; he could equally just as well have willed to not create create and nothing would be worse or better for it. While creation in Platonism is an eternal consequence of the free-will of the plural that the One eternally wills to be infinite (willing and his being and his actualizing of this will that is his being are one quality).