☉ the one and the many

the one and the many — Neoplatonism: Plotinus, Proclus's henads, Iamblichus's theurgy, and Ibn Gabirol's bridge into Hebrew. The philosophical ancestor of emanation, and the one door here that is documented descent rather than rhyme — with the procession and return run as a ladder, Greek beside Hebrew, and an honest account of where the Tree breaks away (tzimtzum, will, the shattering, teshuvah).