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Ennead
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ennead
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from en grc Ἐννεάς, itself a en egy psḏt nine, nineness, ennead 1, from egy psḏw nine.
Proper noun
en Egyptian mythology The collection of nine gods worshipped at Heliopolis and taking part in the Heliopolitan creation myth, together representing the sum of all the elements of the created world: Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Nut, Geb, Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.
Translations
collection of nine gods worshipped at Heliopolis
Egyptian: psḏt N10:t-R8A-G7-Z3 f
Etymology 2
See en ennead.
Noun
en philosophy One of the six parts of the writings of the Greek-speaking philosopher Plotinus (204–205 yes – 270), each containing nine treatises, compiled by his student Porphyry (c. 234 – c. 305).
en w:Henry More An Appendix to the Defence of the Philosophick Cabbala A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr Henry More, Fellow of Christ’s Colledge in Cambridge.As namely, His Antidote against Atheism. Appendix to the Said Antidote. Enthusiasmus Triumphatus. Letters to Des-Cartes, &c. Immortality of the Soul. Conjectura Cabbalistica. 2nd London Printed by James Flesher, for William Mordenbook-seller in Cambridge. 1662 chapter VIII, paragraph 3 137 https://books.google.com/books?id=JnTteVjWRkwC&pg=RA4-PA137 1001052319 Which Darkneſs is a fourth Property of the Moſaick Matter, and on which Plotinus inſiſts pretty copiouſly in this ſecond Ennead, and contends we can have no other notion of it,
en F[rederick] C[harles] Copleston The Architecture of the Intelligible Universe in the Philosophy of Plotinus. An Analytical and Historical Study. By A. H. Armstrong. Pp. xii + 126. (Cambridge University Press, 1940. 7s. 6d.) [book review] w:Christopher Dawson The Dublin Review London Burns Oates & Washbourne April 1941 208 417 263 https://books.google.com/books?id=Tv8TAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA263 320505649 [W]e find side by side in the Enneads the positive and negative conceptions of the One.
Translations
one of the six parts of the writings of Plotinus
Further reading
Ennead Ennead (Egyptian mythology)
The Enneads
Anagrams
en adeenn Na-Dene Na-Dené needna
en Gods