[252] This is Philo's secondary divinity, p. 27, Guthrie's "Message of Philo Judaeus." [253] That is, of the Intelligence and of the intelligible entities. [254] Who is the Unity; a Numenian conception, fr. 36. [255] A term reminiscent of the famous Christian Nicene formulation. [256] That is we will form a "pair." Numenius, 14, also taught the Pythagorean "pair or doubleness." [257] See vi. 6.16. [258] Pun between essences, "einai," and one, or "henos." [259] "Ousia." [260] Notice the two words for "essence." Plato Cratylus, 424; Cary, 87. [261] As Plato in his Cratylus suggests. [262] Or, essence. [263] Or, essence, to be. [264] Being. [265] The goddess Hestia in Greek, or Vesta in Latin; but "hestia" also meant a "stand." P. 401, Cratylus, Cary, 40. [266] See Numenius, 67, 42. [267] See ii. 9.1; iii. 9.9. [268] Such as Numenius, 42, and Plutarch, de Isis et Osiris, Fr. Tr. 381. [269] From "a-polus." [270] See i. 6.4; iii. 5.1. [271] See v. 5.1. [272] See i. 6, end. [273] Pun between "on" and "hen." [274] See Plato, Rep. vi., Cary, 13. [275] Mentioned in Biography of Plotinos, 16. [276] See vi. 9. Another proof of the chronological arrangement. [277] See v. 6. [278] See v. 1, 2, 3, 6; vi. 7, 9. [279] Of Bythos. [280] Ennoia and Thelesis. [281] By distinguishing within each of them potentiality and actualization, Numenius, 25, multiplied them. [282] Nous, and Logos or Achamoth; see ii. 9.6. [283] The prophoric logos, see i. 2.3; and Philo. de Mosis Vita 3. [284] See v. 3.4. [285] See i. 1.7. [286] This is a mingling of Platonic and Aristotelic thought, see Ravaisson, Essay on the Metaphysics of Aristotle, ii. 407. [287] Which would be nonsense; the Gnostics (Valentinus) had gone as far as 33 aeons. [288] See ii. 9.11. [289] Between the sense-world, and the intelligible world, see iv. 3.5-8; v. 2.3. Plotinos is followed by Jamblichus and Damascius, but Proclus and Hermias denied that the soul did not entirely enter into the body, Stobaeus, Ecl. i. 52. [290] See iv. 3.18; iv. 4.3. [291] The intelligible world. [292] See iv. 3.1-8; iv. 9. [293] Thus Plotinos opposes the Gnostic belief that the world was created, and will perish. [294] See ii. 9, 9, 16. [295] The Gnostic Horos. [296] As Plato said Phaedrus, 246; Cary, 55. [297] The Gnostic theory of creation by the fall of Sophia and Achamoth. [298] See ii. 9.11. Valentinus however said only that Achamoth had created all things in honor of the aeons; only the later theologians held this view mentioned by Plotinos. [299] See i. 2.1, 2. [300] See I. Tim. vi. 20, 21; and ii. 9.9. [301] See ii. 3.9. [302] See ii. 1.4. [303] This, however, is a mistake of Plotinos's, as the Gnostics held not this, but that the pneumatic or spiritual humans dwell on earth, and the psychic in heaven, as Bouillet remarks. [304] So that they should remain in the model instead of descending here below? [305] By remaining in the model, instead of descending here below.