THE ESSENTIAL PLOTINUS
Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J.
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"As we turn towards The One, we exist to a higher degree, while to withdraw from it is to fall." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"No intelligible entity ever passes away. All it contains exists in an eternal present." Plotinus, 'The Three Primal Hypostases'
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"To The One the soul must return: it is the law embedded in its ontological structure." Elmer O'Brien, S.J., translator
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"God is a living being, eternal, and infinitely good." Aristotle, 'Metaphysics'
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"The soul is of the same nature as The Soul to which must be ascribed all that is vital and beautiful in the cosmos." Elmer O'Brien, S.J., translator
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"The One is the foundation of all other things and gives them, at one and the same time, existence and location." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"The Soul makes each being one by looking upon The One." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"The Good is the cause of life, of thought, of being." Plotinus, 'Beauty'
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"The imagination is a power that is, as it were, intellectual. Appetite and impulse are obedient to imagination and to reason." Plotinus, 'The Soul'
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"Souls are responsive one to another because they all come from the same soul – The Soul." Plotinus, 'The Soul'
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"What, then is The One? It is what makes all things possible. Without it nothing would exist." Plotinus, 'Contemplation'
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"It is because of The One that we breathe and have our being." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"Health is contingent upon the body's being coordinated in unity; beauty, upon the mastery of parts by The One; the soul's virtue, upon unification into one sole coherence." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"So divine and precious is The Soul, be confident that, by its power, you can attain to divinity." Plotinus, 'The Three Primal Hypostases'
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"There is at the core of every existing thing an ontic desire for what is lacking to its perfectness, and this perfectness it can find in its fullness solely within that which initially engendered it." Elmer O'Brien, S.J., translator
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"What could exist were it not one?" Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"The divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the like; and by these the wing of the soul is nourished, and grows apace." Plato, 'Phaedrus'
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"Within this world-in-little, man, the cyclic rhythm perceptible throughout the universe-at-large, the macrocosm, is recurrently portrayed." Elmer O'Brien, S.J., translator
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"By contemplation the mystic constructs his real self, achieves his authentic existence, quite as the contemplation of The Intelligence IS The Intelligence and the contemplation of The Soul IS The Soul." Elmer O'Brien, S.J., translator
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"It is by The One that all beings are beings." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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"Nothing hinders anything from sharing in the Good to the extent it is able." Plotinus, 'The Descent of the Soul'
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"Every particular thing is linked to that divine being in whose likeness it is made." Plotinus, 'The Soul'
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"Plotinus sees bright shoots of everlastingness in all creation." Elmer O'Brien, S.J.
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"The cosmos is a living organism." Plotinus, 'The Intelligence, The Ideas, and Being'
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"Awareness of The One comes to us…by a presence transcending knowledge." Plotinus, 'The Good or The One'
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