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

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5. This discussion of Nature has shown us how the origin of things is a Contemplation: we may now take the matter up to the higher Soul; we find that the Contemplation pursued by this, its instinct towards knowing and enquiring, the birth pangs set up by the knowledge it attains, its teeming fullness, have caused it- in itself, all one object of Vision- to produce another Vision [that of the Kosmos]: it is just as a given science, complete in itself, becomes the source and cause of what might…

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

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