Numenius of Apamea was a second-century Platonist whose surviving work comes only in fragments. He joined Plato and Pythagoras into a single ancient wisdom and developed a strongly hierarchical account of the divine: the highest God, intelligible reality, and the ordering of the cosmos. His thought was influential enough that later Platonists debated how much Plotinus owed to him.
Numenius matters because he stands near the threshold of Neoplatonism while also looking backward toward Pythagorean and sacred antiquity. For the Royal Art, he is a witness to the perennial impulse to recover a primordial philosophy: a wisdom in which number, intellect, divine order, and the ascent of the soul belong to one sacred vision.