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

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2. The born lover, to whose degree the musician also may attain- and then either come to a stand or pass beyond- has a certain memory of beauty but, severed from it now, he no longer comprehends it: spellbound by visible loveliness he clings amazed about that. His lesson must be to fall down no longer in bewildered delight before some, one embodied form; he must be led, under a system of mental discipline, to beauty everywhere and made to discern the One Principle underlying all, a Principle…

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

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