" Considering the material world to be the lowest state of being, he nevertheless frowned on the Gnostic disdain for matter, citing the divine origin of material creation.
In his group of nine treatises he disavowed what he termed "being in the body." Instead, his ideas promoted an ecstatic soul and centered on a universal One from which the entirety of existence "emanates." Considering the material world to be the lowest state of being, he nevertheless frowned on the Gnostic disdain for matter, citing the divine origin of material creation. This pupil of Ammonius Saccas remains best known today for a compilation by his own student Porphyry which discusses the foundation of the Nous or demiurge. For 10 points, name this first Neoplatonic philosopher and author of the Enneads.
In his group of nine treatises he disavowed what he termed "being in the body."
{Plotinus}