emanistic

Updated: August 20, 2026

It is therefore no wonder that, from the days of the Ionian school onwards, the view that the universe was the result of such a process should have maintained itself as a leading dogma of philosophy. The emanistic theories which played so great a part in Neoplatonic philosophy and Gnostic theology are forms of evolution.

Thomas Henry Huxley - The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century