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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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3. And the soul includes a faculty peculiarly addressed to Beauty- one incomparably sure in the appreciation of its own, never in doubt whenever any lovely thing presents itself for judgement. Or perhaps the soul itself acts immediately, affirming the Beautiful where it finds something accordant with the Ideal-Form within itself, using this Idea as a canon of accuracy in its decision.