{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn382_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn382_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn382_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/enn382.htm","summary":"4. Our opponents themselves are driven by stress of fact to admit the necessity of a prior to body, a higher thing, some phase or form of soul; their \"pneuma\" [finer-body or spirit] is intelligent, and they speak of an \"intellectual fire\"; this \"fire\" and \"spirit\" they imagine to be necessary to the existence of the higher order which they conceive as demanding some base, though the real difficulty, under their theory, is to find a base for material things whose only possible base is\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 4","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":402}