Porphyry

Plotinus's student, biographer and editor — and the reason we have him at all. He gathered his teacher's scattered essays and arranged them into six sets of nine, the Enneads ("nines"), imposing an order Plotinus never gave them. A fierce polemicist against Christianity whose books were later burned for it. The tradition of the disciple who preserves what the master would not systematize is one the Kabbalah knows intimately.