Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 1

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1. We have to examine the question whether there exists an ideal archetype of individuals, in other words whether I and every other human being go back to the Intellectual, every [living] thing having origin and principle There. If Socrates, Socrates' soul, is external then the Authentic Socrates- to adapt the term- must be There; that is to say, the individual soul has an existence in the Supreme as well as in this world.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 1

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