Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 8

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8. From this basis we proceed: In the advancing stages of Contemplation rising from that in Nature, to that in the Soul and thence again to that in the Intellectual-Principle itself- the object contemplated becomes progressively a more and more intimate possession of the Contemplating Beings, more and more one thing with them; and in the advanced Soul the objects of knowledge, well on the way towards the Intellectual-Principle, are close to identity with their container. Hence we may conclude…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 8

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