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"Index". Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea, Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2006, pp. 357-368. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037861-012

(2006). Index. In Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea (pp. 357-368). Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037861-012

2006. Index. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, pp. 357-368. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037861-012

"Index" In Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea, 357-368. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037861-012

Index. In: Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, E

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Category: Neoplatonism > Neoplatonists A–Z

1 Introduction

The Platonic philosopher Ammonius of Alexandria is sometimes called the founder of Neoplatonism. This is a meaningless claim, since we know virtually nothing about what the man believed. He did teach Plotinus, whose works laid the foundation for Neoplatonism, and Plotinus in some sense continued the example of his teacher. However, Longinus, another famous student of Ammonius’, strongly disagreed with some of Plotinus’ teachings, as recounted in the Life of Plotinus by Porphyry (who studied first with Longinus, then with Plotinus). As neither of them, in the extant sources, appeals to Ammonius or defends diverging from him, we do not know how their differences from each other relate to their common teacher.

Less hopeless is another avenue of inquiry, namely the question of whether there was one or two Ammonii (one pagan, one Christian). The problem is that the pagan philosopher Porphyry claims that Ammo

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Sketch of the Doctrines and Principal

Teachers of the Eclectic or Alexandrian School

Plotinus (205-270 C. E.) was the first great expositor of the Neo-Platonic system

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The following essay on classical theosophy 

was first published in Albany, N.Y., U.S.A.,  

by Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, as

part of the small volume “New Platonism and

Alchemy”, bygd Alexander Wilder. This was in

1869 – some six years before the foundation of the

modern theosophical movement in New York.

New Platonism and Alchemy was republished

in 1975 bygd Wizards Bookshelf, Minneapolis, USA,

as part of its “Secret Doctrine Reference Series”.

One of the passages in this extraordinary

text points to the common ancient wisdom

present at the very source and root of Jewish,

Arab, and other cultural traditions. It says:

“Under the noble designation of Wisdom, the

ancient teachers, the sages of India, the magians of