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Epistrophe

Return: in Neoplatonism, the turning back of each being toward its source.

Also: return, conversion

Greek philosophy and Neoplatonism

Epistrophē, conversion or return, completes the movement of emanation. Each level of reality proceeds from its source and turns back to contemplate it, and in that turning is constituted. For the soul, the return is the path of purification, contemplation and union. Proclus systematized the triad of remaining, procession and return.