![]() ![]() The general hierarchy that Proclus indicates in the Elements of Theology 20 is the same as Plotinus’: One, Intellect, Soul, and body. The latter indeed introduced this triad into Platonism. Proclus was also aware of the parallel Neoplatonic Triad Being-Power-Activity ( ousia, dynamis, energeia), which was also found in Christian Platonists such as Gregory of Nyssa, who was in turn impacted by both Origen and Iamblichus. ![]() Proclus developed a system of Triads, in which he expanded the Plotinian protological Triad (One-Nous-Soul) through the Noetic Triad (Being-Life-Nous, which will be analysed below and paralleled with a similar triad in Origen) as a development of Plotinus’ second hypostasis (Nous). ![]() 1 The Noetic Triad in Proclus and Its Sources ![]()
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