neo-platonist

Updated: June 29, 2025

Origen was entirely justified in showing that in this process Celsus frequently forgot his part; and this he did with much skill. But whatever Celsus may have been,—an Epicurean, or, as has occasionally been maintained, a Neo-platonist,—he was at all events no mean adversary and certainly not unworthy of Origen’s steel. If not, why should Origen have felt the need of such an earnest refutation?

F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller - The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour

Exactly like the earlier theosophists also, Ammonius, the Neo-Platonist, held that the purified soul could perform physical wonders, by the power of Theurgy. In its constitution the Theosophical Society professed "to investigate the hidden mysteries of nature and the psychical powers latent in man."

John Morrison - New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century: A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments

Both were attributed to Aristotle in the middle ages by Jews and Arabs alike, but it has been shown recently that the former represents extracts from the works of Plotinus, the head of the Neo-Platonic school of philosophy, while the latter is derived from a treatise of Proclus, a Neo-Platonist of later date.

Isaac Husik - A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy