>>20547544>, I speak as a descendant of these people so I would know.What are you?
A Christian Arab?
>We lack the clear thinking of the Greeks.I believe that historically the Levantines have a way of thinking that tends towards mysticism.
>Probably. It was composed over such a long time period that many factors went into it.Well, taking into account in whose hands it fell first...
>Plotinus wrote a very good criticism of their teachingsPlotinus considered beauty to be the highest purpose of life, and the antiworldly teachings of Gnosticism go against that.