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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 11

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11. Similarly any one, unable to see himself, but possessed by that God, has but to bring that divine- within before his consciousness and at once he sees an image of himself, himself lifted to a better beauty: now let him ignore that image, lovely though it is, and sink into a perfect self-identity, no such separation remaining; at once he forms a multiple unity with the God silently present; in the degree of his power and will, the two become one; should he turn back to the former duality…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 11

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