Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 2

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2. Thus we may not look for the Intellectual objects [the Ideas] outside of the Intellectual-Principle, treating them as impressions of reality upon it: we cannot strip it of truth and so make its objects unknowable and non-existent and in the end annul the Intellectual-Principle itself. We must provide for knowledge and for truth; we must secure reality; being must become knowable essentially and not merely in that knowledge of quality which could give us a mere image or vestige of the reality…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 2

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