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Sure, except with more of a three Hypostases in one Ousia feel.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama’s Books Raise National Security Concerns?!? 2009
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The Infinite-Eternal Nov 24 2005, 05:31 AM The Infinite-Eternal Hypostases within the AbsoluteNote: This page, as in all discussions on the Absolute reality found in mystical and esoteric teachings everywhere, should be taken only as suggestive or even as metaphor, never as fixed dogma or absolute fact.
Sachchidananda Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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The Three Hypostases, the transcendent source of reality, the world of Intellect, real being, and true life, and the sphere of Soul which forms, animates, and governs the material world, are taken for granted by later Neo-Platonists.
NEO-PLATONISM A. HILARY ARMSTRONG 1968
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Some Existents [Absolute Unity and Intellectual-Principle] remain at rest while their Hypostases, or Expressed-Idea, come into being; but, in our view, the Soul generates by its motion, to which is due the sensitive faculty — that in any of its expression-forms — Nature and all forms of life down to the vegetable order.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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He so distinguished between the Divine ousia and the three Hypostases which partake
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Hypostases is identified with the Divine Nature (that is, each Person is God); but if each Hypostasis is therefore still a physis (the one physis) yet the physis is not one by three Hypostases.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Nature (physia or physis) having three Hypostases of Persons.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Of the Trinity: Meditating on the three Hypostases, we glorify the uncircumscribed nature of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, crying out:
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Hypostases, the Gnostic powers of the Psychical Essence, and the
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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This Reason-Principle, then — let us dare the definition in the hope of conveying the truth — this Logos is not the Intellectual Principle unmingled, not the Absolute Divine Intellect; nor does it descend from the pure Soul alone; it is a dependent of that Soul while, in a sense, it is a radiation from both those divine Hypostases; the Intellectual Principle and the Soul — the Soul as conditioned by the Intellectual Principle engender this Logos which is a Life holding restfully a certain measure of Reason.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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