Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE...

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3. We will have to examine this Nature, the Intellectual, which our reasoning identifies as the authentically existent and the veritable essential: but first we must take another path and make certain that such a principle does necessarily exist. Perhaps it is ridiculous to set out enquiring whether an Intellectual-Principle has place in the total of being: but there may be some to hesitate even as to this and certainly there will be the question whether it is as we describe it, whether it is a…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE...

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