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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 2

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2. First, then, let us examine those good qualities by which we hold Likeness comes, and seek to establish what is this thing which, as we possess it, in transcription, is virtue but as the Supreme possesses it, is in the nature of an exemplar or archetype and is not virtue. We must first distinguish two modes of Likeness.