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Sacred Texts: The Classics

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

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12. It should however be added that if the Idea of man exists in the Supreme, there must exist the Idea of reasoning man and of man with his arts and crafts; such arts as are the offspring of intellect Must be There. It must be observed that the Ideas will be of universals; not of Socrates but of Man: though as to man we may enquire whether the individual may not also have place There.