[285] See i. 1.7.
[286] This is a mingling of Platonic and Aristotelic thought, see Ravaisson, Essay on the Metaphysics of Aristotle, ii. 407.
[287] Which would be nonsense; the Gnostics (Valentinus) had gone as far as 33 aeons.
[288] See ii. 9.11.
[289] Between the sense-world, and the intelligible world, see iv. 3.5–8; v. 2.3. Plotinos is followed by Jamblichus and Damascius, but Proclus and Hermias denied that the soul did not entirely enter into the body, Stobaeus, Ecl. i. 52.
[290] See iv. 3.18; iv. 4.3.
[291] The intelligible world.
[292] See iv. 3.1–8; iv. 9.
[293] Thus Plotinos opposes the Gnostic belief that the world was created, and will perish.
[294] See ii. 9, 9, 16.