But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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