Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 1

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1. We undertook to discuss the question whether sight is possible in the absence of any intervening medium, such as air or some other form of what is known as transparent body: this is the time and place. It has been explained that seeing and all sense-perception can occur only through the medium of some bodily substance, since in the absence of body the soul is utterly absorbed in the Intellectual Sphere.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 1

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