Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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