"In the context of Hellenic philosophy, dunamis (Egypt. sekhem) is a power that causes change and transformation. When understood in the active, anagogic sense, it unifies the separated members of Osiris’ body, thereby bringing multiplicity back to psycho-somatic & noetic unity.
Plotinus designates the first overflow (proödos) from the ineffable One as ‘indefinite intellect’ (nous aoristos), which immediately desires to turn back (epistrophein) & return to the One, thereby becoming an Intellect contemplating the Forms, that is, the demiurgic Nous proper.
D. Rehm says:
From the perspective of the indefinite intellect which looks toward the One, the One becomes an intelligible object (noeton). Yet the One as perceived is not identical with the One as it is.
From the perspective of the indefinite intellect which looks toward the One, the One becomes an intelligible object (noeton). Yet the One as perceived is not identical with the One as it is.
Just as nous aoristos (referred as opsis, ‘sight’, by Plotinus) seeks the One, so the awakened nous of the initiate seeks to contemplate the hidden essence (ba sheta) of the noetic ba, as revealed through the image.
And just as the nous aoristos, being unable to see or think the ineffable One, is himself actualized as demiurgic Nous (horasis, ‘sight seeing’, by Plotinus), so the initiate, unable to see hidden essence of Amun, is transformed into the integral, sacrificial noetic Eye of Horus.
Thus, just as the primeval Eye of Atum at first leaves him and then returns in order to be embraced, so the soul of the initiate theoros returns to the noetic plenitude of Atum, carried up by the dunamis of his contemplative Eye."
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