Abstract
This chapter examines Plotinus' own use of being-life-mind triad. It investigates triad's use in four documents that are difficult to date precisely, but which are roughly contemporaneous with, though probably earlier than Plotinus, viz., Anonymous Parmenides Commentary , source common to Marius Victorinus and Zostrianos , as well as two Sethian tractates read in Plotinus' seminars, Allogenes and Zostrianos itself. None of four roughly contemporary documents clearly connects being-life-mind triad to Soph 248E-249A. The chapter discusses Johannine contribution to noetic triad in more detail. The Chaldaean Oracles are often classified as belonging to fringes or the underworld of middle Platonism. Since also first clear enneadic structuring of triad is encountered in a Sethian document, Allogenes , being-life-mind triad, from its seminal form to its full systematization appears to be essentially Sethian handiwork, ultimately inspired by Johannine Christology. Keywords: Allogenes ; being-life-mind triad; Chaldaean Oracles ; contemporary documents; Johannine christology; middle Platonism; Sethian tractates; Zostrianos
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