Rational Spirituality and the possibility of a common participation in the mystical experience of Plotinus

The philosopher Plotinus in the 3rd century A.D. connected a personal experience which he had (four times) during his life, with his analytic philosophical system. His system is composed of a hierarchy with three hypostases, One-Intellect-Soul, and the possibility of the soul to go back to her source, which is the One. The question which is raised is about the communicability or non-communicability of mystical experience: it is subjective and interior or it concerns a bigger number of people? Outside the formal religious frame and inside the philosophical system of Plotinus, the spiritual ascent is possible as through the preoperative value of his work, the Enneads, as through the specific intermediary function of Logos. Logos doesn’t exist inside the One, but it derives from the Intellect and it stands especially at the level of Soul, forming matter. So the ecstasy and the spiritual experience through Logos are depended on the proper usage of the spiritual content of the Enneads, as a cultural monument and also on the dynamic element of Logos in the writings of Plotinus. Finally of course, mystical experience is going beyond human reason and it depends on one’s will to see the beauty of ideal state of being and to come in union with the One.