It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUSClearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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 world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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