The transmission
The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
17 teachers
Neoplatonism
Pythagoras
Number as the structure of reality
c. 570-495 BCE
Neoplatonism
Heraclitus
The Logos
c. 535-475 BCE
Neoplatonism
Empedocles
The four roots, Love and Strife
c. 494-434 BCE
Neoplatonism
Socrates
Know thyself
c. 470-399 BCE
Neoplatonism
Plato
The Forms
c. 428-348 BCE
Neoplatonism
Aristotle
Potentiality and actuality
384-322 BCE
Neoplatonism
Philo of Alexandria
The Logos as divine intermediary
c. 20 BCE - c. 50 CE
Neoplatonism
Plutarch
Daimones and moral psychology
c. 46-119 CE
Neoplatonism
Ammonius Saccas
Founder of Neoplatonism; teacher of Plotinus
c. 175-242 CE
Neoplatonism
Plotinus
Emanation from the One
c. 204-270 CE
Neoplatonism
Porphyry
Editor of the Enneads; the soul's purification
c. 234-305 CE
Neoplatonism
Iamblichus
Theurgy: ritual ascent
c. 245-325 CE
Neoplatonism
Proclus
Systematic emanation and the henads
412-485 CE
Neoplatonism
Al-Fārābī
Emanation, the active intellect, and the virtuous city
c.872-950
Neoplatonism
Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā)
The Necessary Being and the immaterial self-aware soul
c.980-1037
Neoplatonism
Averroes (Ibn Rushd)
The active intellect and the harmony of reason and revelation
1126-1198
Neoplatonism
Marsilio Ficino
Astral spiritus and the magic of drawing down celestial life
1433-1499