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At 14 he entered Harvard; at 18 he was graduated; at 30 he had lost his first wife, his faith in his clerical calling, everything but his faith in himself and Nature's Neo-Platonic Over-Soul.

From Time Magazine Archive

Iamblichus, the great Neo-Platonic mystic, was at one time transfigured.

From Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning by Doane, T. W.

The Neo-Platonic view of matter finds its counterpart in monophysite theory.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

These men composed an encyclop�dia of fifty-one treatises in which is combined Aristotelian logic and physics with Neo-Platonic metaphysics and theology.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac

His adaptation of it to his doctrine of the Ideas is distinctly Neo-Platonic in so far as he recognises 'Ideas of individuals'; but of course to make Will the essence belongs to his own system.

From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas