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1、THEFIGUREOFHECATEANDDYNAMICEMANATIONISMINTHETHECHALDEANORACLES,SETHIANGNOSTICISMANDNEOPLATONISMbyJOHND.TURNERTheUniversityofNebraska-LincolnTheSecondCenturyJournal7:4(1991),221-232OneofthenoveldevelopmentsinthetransitionfromtheratherstaticontologiestypicalofMiddleplat
2、onismtothedynamicemanationismofNeoplatonismisthedoctrineoftheunfoldingoftheworldoftruebeingandintellectfromitssourceinatranscendent,onlynegatively-conceivableultimateunitaryprinciplewhichisitselfbeyondbeing.Thisunfoldingoremanationischaracteristicallypresentedasoccurr
3、inginathree-stageprocess:First,aninitialidentityoftheproductwithitssource,asortofpotentialexistence;second,anindefiniteprocessionorunfoldingoftheproductfromitssource,andthird,acontemplativevisionaryreversionoftheproductuponitssource,inwhichtheproductbecomesawareofitss
4、eparateexistenceandtherebytakesonitsowndistinctiveformanddefinition.ThelaterNeoplatonistssuchasProclus,perhapsPorphyry,andtheauthoroftheanonymousParmenidesCommentary[1]namedthesethreestagesPermanence,ProcessionandReversion,andcharacterizedthethreesuccessivemodesofthep
5、roduct'sexistenceduringthisprocessbythetermsExistence,LifeandIntellect.Previously,Plotinushadappliedasimilarterminology,namelyBeing,LifeandMind,todescribethethreeprincipalaspectsofthesecondofhisthreehypostases,Intellect.[2]Earlierstill,accordingtoDamascius(Dubitatione
6、setSolutiones61&221=1.131,17&2.101,25Ruelle),theChaldaeanOraclesalsoappliedtheExistence,LifeandIntelligenceterminologytotheprincipaltranscendententitiesofthatsystem.Betweenthehighestprinciple,thePaternalMonad(equatedwithExistence),andthedivineIntellect,theyinterposeda
7、medianprincipletheycalledHecate.ThisHecatetheyequatedwiththeprocessingpowerofthePaternalMonad,eventhoughthisresultedinaduplicationofthefigureofHecate,whomatastilllowerontologicallevel,theyalsoidentifiedwiththeWorldSoul.Nowmorerecently,thisExistence,LifeandIntellecttri
8、adhasturnedupinagroup(thePlatonizingSethiantreatises)oftheSethianGnostictreatisesfromNagHammadi,atleasttwoofwhich,Allogenesa
