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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTA...

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25. But the organ is not the only requisite to vision or to perception of any kind: there must be a state of the soul inclining it towards the sphere of sense. Now it is the soul's character to be ever in the Intellectual sphere, and even though it were apt to sense-perception, this could not accompany that intention towards the highest; to ourselves when absorbed in the Intellectual, vision and the other acts of sense are in abeyance for the time; and, in general, any special attention blurs…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTA...

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