Platonic mystics literally worshipped capitalized nouns

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Instead of a distinct persona, practitioners elevated massive abstract concepts like Truth, Beauty, and Goodness into the ultimate absolute. They effectively built an entire profound theological system around deeply admiring completely basic grammar structures.

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Plotinus's student edited his unreadable manuscripts into the Enneads

Neoplatonists believed you could instantly ascend to the divine by doing complex geometry

Neoplatonists argued that evil is just a lack of goodness

Neoplatonists argued that physical beauty was a moral virtue

Neoplatonists believed in staring at a giant one

Upanishads summarize all existence into three obscure words

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