isis unveiled: xii (forbidden ground)

"If the doctrines of Aristotle have exercised on the later Neo-platonists such a "dominating influence", how is it that neither Plotinus, nor Porphyry, nor Proclus ever accepted his theories on dreams and prophetic soul-visions? While Aristotle held that most of those who prophesy have "diseases of madness" - thus furnishing some American plagiarists and specialists [...]