{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn298_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn298_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn298_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/plotenn/enn298.htm","summary":"12. The souls of men, seeing their images in the mirror of Dionysus as it were, have entered into that realm in a leap downward from the Supreme: yet even they are not cut off from their origin, from the divine Intellect; it is not that they have come bringing the Intellectual Principle down in their fall; it is that though they have descended even to earth, yet their higher part holds for ever above the heavens. Their initial descent is deepened since that mid-part of theirs is compelled to\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 12","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":565}