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'''Emanation'''(ism) is an [[idea]] in the [[cosmology]] or cosmogony of certain [[religious]] or [[philosophical]] [[systems]]. Emanation, from the [[Latin]] 'emanare' [[meaning]] "to [[flow]] from", is the mode by which [[all things]] are derived from the First [[Reality]], or Principle. All things are derived from the first reality or [[perfect]] [[God]] by steps of degradation to lesser [[degrees]] of the first reality or God, and at every step the emanating [[beings]] are less [[pure]], less perfect, less [[divine]]. Emanationism is a [[transcendent]] principle from which everything is derived, and is opposed to both [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism Creationism] (wherein the [[universe]] is created by a sentient [[God]] who is separate from [[creation]]) and [[materialism]] (which posits no underlying [[subjective]] and/or ontological [[nature]] behind [[phenomena]], being immanent).

'''Emanation'''(ism) is an [[idea]] in the [[cosmology]] or cosmogony of certain [[religious]] or [[philosophical]] [[systems]]. Emanation, from the [[Latin]] 'emanare' [[meaning]] "to [[flow]] from", is the mode by which [[all things]] are derived from the First [[Reality]], or Principle. All things are derived from the first reality or [[perfect]] [[God]] by steps of degradation to lesser [[degrees]] of the first reality or God, and at every step the emanating [[beings]] are less [[pure]], less perfect, less [[divine]]. Emanationism is a [[transcendent]] principle from which everything is derived, and is opposed to both [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism Creationism] (wherein the [[universe]] is created by a sentient [[God]] who is separate from [[creation]]) and [[materialism]] (which posits no underlying [[subjective]] and/or ontological [[nature]] behind [[phenomena]], being immanent).

==Key principles==

==Key principles==

That [[complex]] [[things]] are created in [[nature]] is not in question by Creationists (Abrahamic religions, etc.), Emanationists, [[Pagan]] [[mystics]], [[nihilists]] and [[atheists]]; rather, the two principles that are in question are the locus for [[creation]] and whether a sentient, self-aware [[Absolute]] (‘God’) is a [[necessity]] for creation. Emanationists such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras Pythagoras],[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus Plotinus], and others [[argued]] that [[complex]] [[patterns]] in [[nature]] were a natural consequence of [[procession]] from the [[One]] (Hen, Absolute).

That [[complex]] [[things]] are created in [[nature]] is not in question by Creationists (Abrahamic religions, etc.), Emanationists, [[Pagan]] [[mystics]], [[nihilists]] and [[atheists]]; rather, the two principles that are in question are the locus for [[creation]] and whether a sentient, self-aware [[Absolute]] (‘God’) is a [[necessity]] for creation. Emanationists such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras Pythagoras],[https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus Plotinus], and others [[argued]] that [[complex]] [[patterns]] in [[nature]] were a natural consequence of [[procession]] from the [[One]] (Hen, Absolute).

According to Emanationism, the [[Absolute]], its [[nature]] and its [[activity]] must be inseparably one thing only, namely [[will]], such that the [[nature]] and [[activity]] of the Absolute is both one and the same (again, will) and by its very nature is also its activity ‘to will’ and wills things to be or occur, thereby maintaining the [[center]] of the [[logical]] [[system]] of Emanationism. In addition, agnosis, or the lack of Subjective gnosis, is a primordial privation which must be corrected before a metaphysical "Oneing" (Plotinus) can occur. Through this [[process]], the [[transcendent]] yet immanent [[will]] of [[individuals]] is made self-reflexive by [[recollect]]ing back further and further. Eventually it will reach that nature, the Noetic (and real) self, which is antecedent to the [[phenomenal]], corporeal self. The ontologically [[transcendent]] yet immanent Self is seen as being one's unactualized nature, and this nature will remain unactualized until contemplation is brought to fruition, thereby bringing into [[actuality]] what had been merely [[potential]].

According to Emanationism, the [[Absolute]], its [[nature]] and its [[activity]] must be inseparably one thing only, namely [[will]], such that the [[nature]] and [[activity]] of the Absolute is both one and the same (again, will) and by its very nature is also its activity ‘to will’ and wills things to be or occur, thereby maintaining the [[center]] of the [[logical]] [[system]] of Emanationism. In addition, agnosis, or the lack of Subjective gnosis, is a primordial privation which must be corrected before a metaphysical "Oneing" (Plotinus) can occur. Through this [[process]], the [[transcendent]] yet immanent [[will]] of [[individuals]] is made self-reflexive by [[recollect]]ing back further and further. Eventually it will reach that nature, the Noetic (and real) self, which is antecedent to the [[phenomenal]], corporeal self. The ontologically [[transcendent]] yet immanent Self is seen as being one's unactualized nature, and this nature will remain unactualized until contemplation is brought to fruition, thereby bringing into [[actuality]] what had been merely [[potential]].

==Origins==

==Origins==

The primary [[classical]] exponent of Emanationism was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus Plotinus], wherein his work, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneads Enneads], [[all things]] [[phenomenal]] and otherwise were an emanation from the One (Hen). In Ennead 5.1.6, Emanationism is compared to a diffusion from the One, of which there are three primary hypostases, the One (hen), the [[Intellect]]/[[will]] (nous), and the [[Soul]] (psyche tou pantos). For Plotinus, emanation, or the "soul's [[descent]]", is a result of the Indefinite Dyad, the primordial agnosis [[inherent]] to and within the [[Absolute]], the Godhead.

The primary [[classical]] exponent of Emanationism was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus Plotinus], wherein his work, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneads Enneads], [[all things]] [[phenomenal]] and otherwise were an emanation from the One (Hen). In Ennead 5.1.6, Emanationism is compared to a diffusion from the One, of which there are three primary hypostases, the One (hen), the [[Intellect]]/[[will]] (nous), and the [[Soul]] (psyche tou pantos). For Plotinus, emanation, or the "soul's [[descent]]", is a result of the Indefinite Dyad, the primordial agnosis [[inherent]] to and within the [[Absolute]], the Godhead.

Plotinus in particular argued that there is no [[knowledge]] or sentience in the [[Absolute]], and that all things noetic and corporeal were as well a [[logos]] or [[proportional]] [[phenomena]] of the emanation of and by the One. In Plotinian Emanationism, there are lesser and lesser potencies of will as [[procession]] occurs beginning from the One, through the noetic, or the [[soul]], finally ending in base [[matter]], which is generally seen as utter privation.

Plotinus in particular argued that there is no [[knowledge]] or sentience in the [[Absolute]], and that all things noetic and corporeal were as well a [[logos]] or [[proportional]] [[phenomena]] of the emanation of and by the One. In Plotinian Emanationism, there are lesser and lesser potencies of will as [[procession]] occurs beginning from the One, through the noetic, or the [[soul]], finally ending in base [[matter]], which is generally seen as utter privation.

[[Category: Philosophy]]

[[Category: Philosophy]]