Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 23

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23. I explain: A living body is illuminated by soul: each organ and member participates in soul after some manner peculiar to itself; the organ is adapted to a certain function, and this fitness is the vehicle of the soul-faculty under which the function is performed; thus the seeing faculty acts through the eyes, the hearing faculty through the ears, the tasting faculty through the tongue, the faculty of smelling through the nostrils, and the faculty of sentient touch is present throughout…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 23

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