Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 15

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15. Now the objects attracting the sun-rays to themselves- illuminated by a fire of the sense-order- are necessarily of the sense-order; there is perceptibility because there has been a union of things at once external to each other and continuous, contiguous, in direct contact, two extremes in one line. But the Reason-Principle operating upon Matter is external to it only in a very different mode and sense: exteriority in this case is amply supplied by contrariety of essence and can dispense…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 15

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