ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author demonstrates that the former points to the One while the latter amounts to the soul’s imitation of the Intellect. He finally investigates the role of pistis in the ascent to the one, examining how, accompanied with intuition, pistis leads us to the threshold of the One. Faith accompanies both reason and intuition. Reason allows us to examine the metaphysical possibility of the one and, eventually, to understand its existence and foundational aspect as a principle. However, given the nature of the one, the role of reason, while crucial, is necessarily limited. The human soul has the capacity to cognize in the same way as the Intellect, i.e., to intuit, for that capacity originates in the latter. In consequence, the union of the soul with the Intellect means nothing but the soul’s use of the specific cognition that is intuition.
