The Flower of the Intellect

The summit of the soul

The Chaldean Oracles and the later Platonists speak of a “flower of the intellect” — and even a flower of the whole soul — a faculty higher than discursive thought and higher than intellect itself, by which the soul makes contact with the One. It is the organ of union: not a knowing that grasps an object, but a unifying touch in which the soul becomes one with the One.