caravan: a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file
procession: the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
neoplatonism: a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable