Ammonites were descendants of Ammon and were closely related to the more civilized Moabites; Biblically their names were interchangeable.
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Ammonius Saccas. A great and good philosopher who lived in Alexandria between the 2nd and 3rd centuries of our Era, the founder of the Neo-Platonic School of the Philalethians or "lovers of truth.
Ammonius Hermeias, a genuine Platonist and likewise [vii] one of the best of the Aristotelian commentators, ...
Ammonius taught that the religion of the multitude went hand-in-hand with philosophy, and with her had shared the fate of being by degrees corrupted and obscured with mere human conceits, superstitions, and lies; that it ought, therefore, ...
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Although Ammonius Saccus was long believed to be the founder of Neo-Platonism, the school had its true beginning in Plotinus (A.D. 204-269?).
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He studied philosophy in Alexandria under Ammonius Saccus, before joining a military campaign against Persia, where he encountered Indian ideas. He went to Rome c 244, where he taught until about 268.
Plotinus was an Egyptian and so was his teacher, Ammonius Saccas (185-250). Plotinus studied in Alexandria for 11 years and was a participant in the Alexandrian synthesis of ideas (O'Neill 1986).
The name Theosophy, which as we have said, is Greek, was first used by Ammonius Saccas, in the third century after Christ, and has remained ever since in the history of religion in the West, denoting not only Mysticism, but also an eclectic system, ...
developed among the scholars of Alexandria,[21] as religious thought was refined and ideas adapted not only from the other theologies common in Alexandria, but from the Zoroasterism of Iran, and even, through the founder of Neoplatonism, Ammonius ...
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