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As its name suggests, neoplatonism is connected with the philosopher Plato. Key figures include Plotinus, whose major work is called the Enneads, Proclus. Neoplatonism influenced early christian writers like Saint Augustine and ascetics like pseudo-Dionysius the Aeropagite, who in turn had a profound on western and eastern medieval mystics, such as Saint Bonaventure, Meister Eckhart, Renaissance intellectuals like Marsilio Ficino whose magnus opus ''Theologica Platonica'' attempted a formal synthesis of neoplatonism and christianity, and later mystics like John of the Cross or Terésa of Ávila.

== Models of mystical development ==