Henosis, Contemplation, Techne

According to Plotinus, Knowledge is Henotic--a unity of Subject and Object.  So, applied to Aristotle's system, as Plotinus believes that it does, it follows from that concept that the human desire to know is a desire to unify with the deity of the system, i. e. with the Object of the highest Knowledge.  Thus, if that deity is Immaterial, as it is for Aristotle, the unification is achieved in Contemplation, the content of which is Forms.  But, if the deity is constituted by both Form and Matter, e. g. Spinoza's God, then so, too, is Henosis.  On that basis, Henotic Knowledge is Techne, constituted by a combination of Mental and Physical processes, e. g. Spinoza's Parallelism.  So, a significant factor in the traditional priority of Contemplation over Techne is the concept of divinity as incorporeal, a tradition that is so deeply entenched that it is rarely recognized that even though Spinoza explicitly diverges from it, his Henotic moment, Intuition, is usually interpreted as contemplative, rather than as creative.