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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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6. Similarly, as it seems to me, the wise of Egypt- whether in precise knowledge or by a prompting of nature- indicated the truth where, in their effort towards philosophical statement, they left aside the writing-forms that take in the detail of words and sentences- those characters that represent sounds and convey the propositions of reasoning- and drew pictures instead, engraving in the temple- inscriptions a separate image for every separate item: thus they exhibited the mode in which the…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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