The Over-Soul
Influence of Eastern religions , including Vedantism , is plainly evident , but the essay also develops ideas long present in the Western tradition , e . g . , in the works of Plato , Plutarch , and Neoplatonists like Plotinus and Proclus – all of whose writings Emerson read extensively throughout his career – and Emanuel Swedenborg . 
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