Plotinus, ploh TY nuhs (205?-270?), was the founder of a school of Greek philosophy known as Neoplatonism. He developed Neoplatonism from the philosophy of Plato (see Neoplatonism). Plotinus said that the material world is unreal, politics trivial, the body a temporary prison for the soul, and life a journey through a landscape of illusion. Reality lay "yonder" in a solitary perfect being, The One, the source of all truth, goodness, and beauty. He said pure souls may hope to "return" there. Sometimes this return occurred as a mystical vision. Plotinus believed he had experienced such a vision.