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The Unitive Metaphysic: Philosophical Foundations
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Martinez de PasquallyMartinism / Élus Coëns · c. 1727–1774 CEgrounded in · high confidence
Read in full — our archive →from the Internet ArchivePlotinusNeoplatonism · 204–270 CEgrounded in · high confidence
“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”Read in full — our archive →from the Internet Archive— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna
ProclusNeoplatonism · 412–485 CEgrounded in · medium confidence
Read in full — our archive →from the Internet ArchiveThe Upanishads, Part I (SBE Vol. 1)Hindu / Vedanta (Sruti) · c. 800–400 BCE; SBE 1879parallel to · high confidence
“Now that which is that subtle essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it.”Read in full — our archive →from Sacred Texts— Khandogya-Upanishad VI.8.7 ('Tat tvam asi') — trans. F. Max Muller, SBE Vol. 1 (1879)