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Sacred Texts: The Classics

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

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2. The existence of such a being is no demand of the ordinary man, merely; it is supported by Theologians and, over and over again, by Plato to whom Eros is child of Aphrodite, minister of beautiful children, inciter of human souls towards the supernal beauty or quickener of an already existing impulse thither. All this requires philosophical examination.