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The 62 pages that link to Neoplatonism, each with the reason it gives.

• PlatoRelated: It transformed Platonic themes into a major late-antique metaphysical system.

• Augustine of HippoRelated: Its account of immaterial reality helped Augustine understand evil and the soul.

• Islamic philosophyRelated: Its account of emanation shaped influential Islamic accounts of creation and intellect.

• AvicennaRelated: Its account of emanation helped shape Avicenna’s explanation of how the world depends on God.

• GnosticismCompared with: Both envision spiritual reality beyond the sensible world, but Neoplatonism does not generally condemn the cosmos as a Gnostic prison.

• BoethiusNarrower topic: Its account of providence and the highest good informs themes in Boethius’s philosophy.

• HermeticismCompared with: Hermetic writings share its themes of divine unity and ascent while presenting them through revelation and dialogue.

• Ancient Greek philosophyRelated: It transformed Platonic thought and transmitted it into late antique religious and intellectual life.

• PlotinusNarrower topic: Plotinus’s teaching established the tradition later thinkers developed.

• Sistine Chapel ceilingRelated: Its ideas offer one historical lens on the ceiling’s movement between divine creation and embodied life.

• William BlakeRelated: Blake’s vision of spiritual reality drew on ideas about the relation between material and eternal worlds.

• Giordano BrunoRelated: Its ideas about unity and divine reality informed Bruno’s account of an infinitely expressive universe.

• Al-FarabiRelated: Neoplatonic ideas informed Al-Farabi’s account of emanation and the structure of reality.

• Sandro BotticelliRelated: It offers one influential framework for interpreting the spiritual dimensions of his mythological works.

• Marsilio FicinoNarrower topic: Ficino adapted this tradition into a Christian philosophy of the soul and cosmos.

• PanentheismRelated: Its accounts of emanation and transcendence provide an ancient parallel to panentheistic themes.

• The Birth of VenusRelated: Neoplatonic readings connect the beauty of Venus to spiritual and intellectual ideals.

• EsotericismRelated: Its accounts of spiritual ascent and layered reality informed many esoteric systems.

• HypatiaNarrower topic: Hypatia’s teaching belonged to the Alexandrian Neoplatonic tradition.

• Middle PlatonismBroader topic: It develops themes inherited from Middle Platonism into a more unified metaphysical system.

• Porphyry of TyreNarrower topic: Porphyry systematized and transmitted the tradition founded by his teacher Plotinus.

• AvicennismRelated: Neoplatonic ideas inform Avicenna’s account of emanation and the order of intellects.

• Greek philosophyRelated: It transformed Platonism into a major late antique system.

• ProclusNarrower topic: Proclus systematized this tradition into a hierarchy of reality and knowledge.

• Al-KindiRelated: Neoplatonic ideas influenced accounts of divine unity and cosmic order in Al-Kindi’s thought.

• ContemplationRelated: Its account of ascent toward the One made contemplation central to philosophical life.

• Natural magicRelated: Its hierarchy of being helped explain how influence could pass between cosmic levels.

• NondualismRelated: Its account of the One offers a historically influential model of metaphysical unity.

• Renaissance magicRelated: Its hierarchy of being offered a framework for linking material nature with divine realities.

• TheurgyNarrower topic: Theurgy is a ritual practice debated and developed within this broader philosophical tradition.

• Vladimir SolovyovRelated: Its account of unity and emanation helped shape Solovyov’s metaphysical framework.

• AcademyRelated: It represents a later transformation of the Platonic inheritance.

• Hermes TrismegistusCompared with: Hermetic dialogues share late antique metaphysical concerns but form a distinct textual tradition.

• Meister EckhartRelated: Its language of emanation and return helps frame Eckhart’s account of creation and the soul’s return to God.

• Giovanni Pico della MirandolaRelated: Pico used its hierarchy of being to connect classical philosophy with Christian theology.

• Ibn ArabiRelated: Its language of emanation and levels of reality helps contextualize themes in his metaphysics.

• Medieval philosophyRelated: Its account of emanation shaped medieval accounts of creation and the divine.

• Michael PsellosNarrower topic: Psellos revived and adapted Neoplatonic ideas within a Christian Byzantine intellectual setting.

• Religious ecstasyRelated: Its account of the soul's ascent and union with the One influenced later mystical language.

• Ein SofCompared with: Its emanation model resembles Kabbalistic cosmology but is not identical to Ein Sof.

• John PhiloponusRelated: Philoponus received a late antique philosophical education in a tradition strongly shaped by Neoplatonism.

• NeopythagoreanismCompared with: Neoplatonism absorbed Pythagorean themes while developing a distinct systematic metaphysics.

• Nicholas of CusaRelated: Its account of unity and participation informs his thinking about God and creation.

• The School of AthensRelated: Plato’s gesture has often been interpreted through Renaissance Neoplatonic ideas.

• JulianRelated: Neoplatonic ideas shaped Julian’s understanding of the gods and religious hierarchy.

• Louise LabéRelated: Its ideas about love and the soul inform the intellectual background of Renaissance debates about desire.

• Pavel FlorenskyRelated: Its layered account of reality offers a philosophical comparison for Florensky’s treatment of symbols and spiritual worlds.

• The GoodRelated: Plotinus transforms Plato’s highest principle into the transcendent One.

• The Incoherence of the PhilosophersRelated: Its ideas helped shape the cosmology al-Ghazali scrutinizes.

• Jakob BöhmeRelated: Its language of emanation offers a useful comparison for Böhme’s account of creation from divine unity.