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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 9

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9. In order, then, to know what the Divine Mind is, we must observe soul and especially its most God-like phase. One certain way to this knowledge is to separate first, the man from the body- yourself, that is, from your body- next to put aside that soul which moulded the body, and, very earnestly, the system of sense with desires and impulses and every such futility, all setting definitely towards the mortal: what is left is the phase of the soul which we have declared to be an image of the…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 9

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