and imperfection to good ends; evil was generated accidentally in the conflict between the finite and the infinite.

Reception

Iamblichus was praised by his followers, and contemporaries credited him with miraculous powers. The Roman emperor Julian, not content with Eunapius' modest eulogy that Iamblichus was inferior to Porphyry only in style, regarded him as second only to Plato and said that he would give all the

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