Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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3. For the most convincing proof that vision does not depend upon the transmission of impressions of any kind made upon the air, we have only to consider that in the darkness of night we can see a fire and the stars and their very shapes. No one will pretend that these forms are reproduced upon the darkness and come to us in linked progression; if the fire thus rayed out its own form, there would be an end to the darkness.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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