Although calling down spirits and distilling alchemical potions has the semblance of pure superstition, the complex metaphysical philosophy of Neoplatonism, which was part of Forman's milieu, used a notion of affinities and correspondences that pass beyond simple causal relations — the implications of which are not without import and whose underlying desire was towards a unified and tolerant system of knowledge. (lindsayseers.info)
Over the past 50 years, Sean Scully has created an artistic system of his own, gathering and developing the best plastic traditions of the early 20th - century avant - garde and combining them with complex metaphysical philosophy from the Ancient Greeks to theorists of the present day. (kerlingallery.com)
History is not illusionary or unreal as Hindu metaphysical philosophy may make one to believe. (religion-online.org)