“Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.” FirstsSoulEyeBeautifulVisionSun Book:The Six Enneads Source: The Six Enneads
“Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.” FirstsMeanThreeOpinionKnowledgeDegreesThirdsInstrumentsInstinctIntuitionIlluminationHunchesDialectics Author:Plotinus
“Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.” IfsMenFirstsSoulRealitySidesVoiceBecomingPureEarsHearingOne WordDormantPure Soul Author:Plotinus
