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Ennead VI Books 1 to 5 by Plotinus

Philosophy Audiobooks

CHAPTER

The Universal Essence

Our nature and we ourselves all depend on cosmic being. We think the intelligible entities contained in essence without having either images or impressions thereof. When we turn our gaze outside of him, from whom we depend, we no longer recognize that we are an unity. If one of these faces could turn around either spontaneously or by the aid of Minerva, it would see that itself is the divinity. This is proved by the participation of matter in ideas.

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