Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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10. Perhaps the reason this continuous activity remains unperceived is that it has no touch whatever with things of sense. No doubt action upon material things, or action dictated by them, must proceed through the sensitive faculty which exists for that use: but why should there not be an immediate activity of the Intellectual-Principle and of the soul that attends it, the soul that antedates sensation or any perception?

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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