What dialogues/texts by plato is best if im interested in platos metaphysics and ''theology''
Bad title i know. I have a small interest in western esotericism which i developed the last two years and every time i spent some time on a subject like theosophy, kabbalah or gnostisicm it always led me to neo-platonism because each one of the western esoteric subjects had been influenced by it in some way or another.
But i understood if i wanted to understand someone like Plotinus i had to read Plato himelf so the last two months i have been reading some of his most early socratic dialouges.
Apologia, Criton, Euthyfron, Laches, Symposium, Phaedo and Gorgias.
I enjoyed them all but weren't what i was looking for(i think????). Most of the texts were ethical i feel and a lot of them ended in aporia(maybe this doesn't matter though) but the texts which i think were the direction i was looking for was Phaedo and symposium maybe. Its hard to know what context i need to read middle/late Platonics scholars if i haven't read any and to read and understand them i need to have the basics so im kind of in a conundrum myself haha.
Real Platonic scholars would probably tell me to read everyhting and to fully understand him but im not planning to become a scholar. I listened to a podcast about Plutarch where he mentioned that Plato believes the sky comes from the soul and the sky is dualistic and that this comes from his text Timaeus which i have heard is the most heavy in nature-philosophy, cosmology and metaphysics but is there dialogues other than Timaeus in which these subjects are discussed
TL;DR: Which of platos dialogues are the most important if i want to understand neo(and middle)-platonits such as Plotinus, Porphyry and Plutarch especially in how they analyze and interpret myths and stories from a platonic perspective.