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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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5. But this power which determines memory is it also the principle by which the Supreme becomes effective in us? At any time when we have not been in direct vision of that sphere, memory is the source of its activity within us; when we have possessed that vision, its presence is due to the principle by which we enjoyed it: this principle awakens where it wakens; and it alone has vision in that order; for this is no matter to be brought to us by way of analogy, or by the syllogistic reasoning…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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