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

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1. It is a principle with us that one who has attained to the vision of the Intellectual Beauty and grasped the beauty of the Authentic Intellect will be able also to come to understand the Father and Transcendent of that Divine Being. It concerns us, then, to try to see and say, for ourselves and as far as such matters may be told, how the Beauty of the divine Intellect and of the Intellectual Kosmos may be revealed to contemplation.

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

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