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  • The Mission of Ammonius Saccas and the New Platonists of Alexandria

    The Mission of Ammonius Saccas and the New Platonists of Alexandria

    The aim of the Hellenist philosopher Ammonious Saccas from Alexandria, founder of the New Platonic Eclectic School, was to reconcile the plethora of sects in Egypt and Palestine at the time. The central object was faith in one immutable, nameless, inexorable Divine Principle and eternal law by which the Universe was governed. It was by…