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

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1. Many times it has happened: Lifted out of the body into myself; becoming external to all other things and self-encentered; beholding a marvellous beauty; then, more than ever, assured of community with the loftiest order; enacting the noblest life, acquiring identity with the divine; stationing within It by having attained that activity; poised above whatsoever within the Intellectual is less than the Supreme: yet, there comes the moment of descent from intellection to reasoning, and after…

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

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