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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 41

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41. Intellection seems to have been given as an aid to the diviner but weaker beings, an eye to the blind. But the eye itself need not see Being since it is itself the light; what must take the light through the eye needs the light because of its darkness.