In its later days, this school endorsed a form of magic called theurgy.
One member of this philosophical school identified gods as "henads" who facilitate the correspondence of mental states to levels of reality. In its later days, this school endorsed a form of magic called theurgy. This school explained certain metaphysical aspects as vertical and horizontal triads, and a member of this philosophical tradition explained its differences from Christianity in the treatise called Against the Christians. The originator of this school was a colleague of the Christian writer Origen and student of Ammonius, and its ideas are best laid out in a set of nine treatises, the Enneads, which were written by Porphyry, a disciple of its founder. For 10 points, name this school of thought which synthesized mystical cycles of returning to and receding from a monotheistic God with the ideas of the writer of Critias and Phaedo.
One member of this philosophical school identified gods as "henads" who facilitate the correspondence of mental states to levels of reality.
{Neoplatonism}