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THE LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSLATIONS. PLOTINUS: PSYCHIC
& PHYSICAL TREATISES, VOLUME II.
Do ċum glóirе Dé & onóra na h-Éireann,
i n’Doṁnaċ-Droc Ḋaile-Áṫa-Cliaṫ ḋom,
Stíofán mac-Enna. Nodlaig 1916.
LOTINUS
PSYCHIC AND PHYSICAL
TREATISES; COMPRISING
THE SECOND AND THIRD
ENNEADS, TRANSLATED
FROM THE GREEK BY STEPHEN MACKENNA
PHILIP LEE WARNER, PUBLISHER
TO THE MEDICI SOCIETY, LIMITED
7 GRAFTON ST. LONDON, W. 1. 1921
Of this Edition 1000 copies have
been printed on pure rag paper
Printed in Great Britain
CONTENTS
The Books Of The Third Ennead
Page
I.
Fate
1
II.
Providence: First Treatise
11
III.
On Providence: Second Treatise
36
IV.
Our Tutelary Spirit
46
V.
On Love
53
VI.
The Impassivity of the Unembodied
67
VII.
Time and Eternity
96
VIII.
Nature Contemplation and the One
119
IX.
Detached Considerations
136
The Books Of The Second Ennead
I.
On The Kosmos or on the Heavenly System
143
II.
The Heavenly Circuit
154
III.
Are The Stars Causes?
159
IV.
Matter in its Two Kinds
178
V.
On Potentiality and Actuality
196
VI.
Quality and Form-Idea
203
VII.
On Complete Transfusion
208
VIII.
Why Distant Objects Appear Small
212
IX.
Against Those that Affirm the Creator of the Kosmos and the Kosmos Itself to be Evil: [Generally Quoted as "Against the Gnostics"]
215
Note on the Order of the Tractates of the Third and Second Enneads
245
Acknowledgements
246
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