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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTAT...

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11. And we must remember that what comes from the supernals does not enter into the recipients as it left the source; fire, for instance, will be duller; the loving instinct will degenerate and issue in ugly forms of the passion; the vital energy in a subject not so balanced as to display the mean of manly courage, will come out as either ferocity or faint-heartedness; and ambition... in love...; and the instinct towards good sets up the pursuit of semblant beauty; intellectual power at its…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTAT...

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