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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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3. Thus there is in the Nature-Principle itself an Ideal archetype of the beauty that is found in material forms and, of that archetype again, the still more beautiful archetype in Soul, source of that in Nature. In the proficient soul this is brighter and of more advanced loveliness: adorning the soul and bringing to it a light from that greater light which is beauty primally, its immediate presence sets the soul reflecting upon the quality of this prior, the archetype which has no such…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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