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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 18

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18. To pass to the consideration of beauty: If by beauty we mean the primary Beauty, the same or similar arguments will apply here as to goodness: and if the beauty in the Ideal-Form is, as it were, an effulgence [from that primary Beauty], we may observe that it is not identical in all participants and that an effulgence is necessarily a posterior. If we mean the beauty which identifies itself with Substance, this has been covered in our treatment of Substance.

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