Holos – Plotinus Theory: “We are in God; God is in us”

A beautiful summary of the poetic analogies of the work of Plotinus (and, for connection, of Amônio Saccas his Master) given by Jostein Gaarder:

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" Imagine an enormous bonfire burning in the middle of the night. Of the middle of the fire flashes jump in all the directions. In a wide circle about of the fire the night is lit up, and to some kilometers of distance it is still possible to see the light shine of this bonfire. As we stood back, the bonfire is going becoming a minuscule light point, as a weak lantern in the night. It is been we stiller move away ourselves, we will arrive to a point in that the light of the fire not more it gets us to reach. Somewhere the luminous rays get lost in the night and if it is very dark we won't see anything. On that moment, contours and shades stop existing ". " Now imagine the reality as being this enormous bonfire. What burns it is God - and the darkness that are outside are the cold matter, where the light is weak, of the which men are made and you encourage. Close to God is the eternal ideas, the all the creatures' causes. Above all, the human soul is a ' it twinkles of the fire'. But for the whole part in the nature appears a little of this divine light. We can see it in everybody you be they alive; yes even a rose or a campanula they possess a divine shine. In the most distant point of the alive God it is the inanimate " matter."I say that everything that we see has a little of the divine mystery. We can see the shine of this some thing in a sunflower or in a papoula. We noticed a more little of this unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that landed in a branch, or in a gold fish that anything in the fishbowl. But the closest point in than we met of God it is inside of our own souls. It is only there that can re-join with the great mystery of the life. In fact, in some rare moments "

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*Plotinus was born at 205 of the Christian Era, in Licopolis, Egypt, almost staying the whole youth in Alexandria up to 243 A.D. Later he funded a school in Rome, wich principles reflected his Master's Ammonium Saccas.