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1、THEFIGUREOFHECATEANDDYNAMICEMANATIONISMINTHETHECHALDEANORACLES,SETHIANGNOSTICISMANDNEOPLATONISMbyJOHND.TURNERTheUniversityofNebraska-LincolnTheSecondCenturyJournal7:4(1991),221-232OneofthenoveldevelopmentsinthetransitionfromtheratherstaticontologiestypicalofMiddleplatonismtothed
2、ynamicemanationismofNeoplatonismisthedoctrineoftheunfoldingoftheworldoftruebeingandintellectfromitssourceinatranscendent,onlynegatively-conceivableultimateunitaryprinciplewhichisitselfbeyondbeing.Thisunfoldingoremanationischaracteristicallypresentedasoccurringinathree-stageproce
3、ss:First,aninitialidentityoftheproductwithitssource,asortofpotentialexistence;second,anindefiniteprocessionorunfoldingoftheproductfromitssource,andthird,acontemplativevisionaryreversionoftheproductuponitssource,inwhichtheproductbecomesawareofitsseparateexistenceandtherebytakeson
4、itsowndistinctiveformanddefinition.ThelaterNeoplatonistssuchasProclus,perhapsPorphyry,andtheauthoroftheanonymousParmenidesCommentary[1]namedthesethreestagesPermanence,ProcessionandReversion,andcharacterizedthethreesuccessivemodesoftheproduct'sexistenceduringthisprocessbytheterms
5、Existence,LifeandIntellect.Previously,Plotinushadappliedasimilarterminology,namelyBeing,LifeandMind,todescribethethreeprincipalaspectsofthesecondofhisthreehypostases,Intellect.[2]Earlierstill,accordingtoDamascius(DubitationesetSolutiones61&221=1.131,17&2.101,25Ruelle),theChaldae
6、anOraclesalsoappliedtheExistence,LifeandIntelligenceterminologytotheprincipaltranscendententitiesofthatsystem.Betweenthehighestprinciple,thePaternalMonad(equatedwithExistence),andthedivineIntellect,theyinterposedamedianprincipletheycalledHecate.ThisHecatetheyequatedwiththeproces
7、singpowerofthePaternalMonad,eventhoughthisresultedinaduplicationofthefigureofHecate,whomatastilllowerontologicallevel,theyalsoidentifiedwiththeWorldSoul.Nowmorerecently,thisExistence,LifeandIntellecttriadhasturnedupinagroup(thePlatonizingSethiantreatises)oftheSethianGnostictreat
8、isesfromNagHammadi,atleasttwoofwhich,Allogenesa