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Sacred Texts: The Classics

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

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8. And- if it is desirable to venture the more definite statement of a personal conviction clashing with the general view- even our human soul has not sunk entire; something of it is continuously in the Intellectual Realm, though if that part, which is in this sphere of sense, hold the mastery, or rather be mastered here and troubled, it keeps us blind to what the upper phase holds in contemplation. The object of the Intellectual Act comes within our ken only when it reaches downward to the…