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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 1

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1. "The Intellectual-Principle" [= the Divine Mind]- we read [in the Timaeus]- "looks upon the Ideas indwelling in that Being which is the Essentially Living [= according to Plotinus, the Intellectual Realm], "and then"- the text proceeds- "the Creator judged that all the content of that essentially living Being must find place in this lower universe also." Are we meant to gather that the Ideas came into being before the Intellectual-Principle so that it "sees them" as previously existent? The…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 1

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