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Episode 115: The Esoteric Plotinus, Part I: Philosophic Silence and Esoteric Reading
We discuss aspects of the esoteric found in two distinct sources – Porphyry's Life of Plotinus and Plotinus' own writings – and think through them. The esoteric Platonist exegete meets the late pagan holy man; are they the same person?