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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 11

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11. I think, therefore, that those ancient sages, who sought to secure the presence of divine beings by the erection of shrines and statues, showed insight into the nature of the All; they perceived that, though this Soul is everywhere tractable, its presence will be secured all the more readily when an appropriate receptacle is elaborated, a place especially capable of receiving some portion or phase of it, something reproducing it, or representing it, and serving like a mirror to catch an…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 11

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