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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 4

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4. In that realm it has also vision, through the Intellectual-Principle, of The Good which does not so hold to itself as not to reach the soul; what intervenes between them is not body and therefore is no hindrance- and, indeed, where bodily forms do intervene there is still access in many ways from the primal to the tertiaries. If, on the contrary, the soul gives itself to the inferior, the same principle of penetration comes into play, and it possesses itself, by memory and imagination, of…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 4

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