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.
PLOTINUSA 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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One 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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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 must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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