Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 7

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7. This is the significance of Plato's account of the birth of Love. The drunkenness of the father Poros or Possession is caused by Nectar, "wine yet not existing"; Love is born before the realm of sense has come into being: Penia had participation in the Intellectual before the lower image of that divine Realm had appeared; she dwelt in that Sphere, but as a mingled being consisting partly of Form but partly also of that indetermination which belongs to the Soul before she attains the Good and…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 7

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