Enneads: Psychic and physical treatises; comprising the second and third EnneadsP. L. Warner, publisher to the Medici Society, 1921 |
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... motion . On the assumption that all happens by Cause , it is easy to discover the nearest determinants of any particular act or state and to trace it plainly to them . The cause of a visit to the centre of affairs will be that one ...
... motion . On the assumption that all happens by Cause , it is easy to discover the nearest determinants of any particular act or state and to trace it plainly to them . The cause of a visit to the centre of affairs will be that one ...
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... motion and by the positions and mutual aspect of the planets and fixed stars in whose power of foretelling they find warrant for the belief that this Circuit is the universal determinant . Finally , there are those that dwell on the ...
... motion and by the positions and mutual aspect of the planets and fixed stars in whose power of foretelling they find warrant for the belief that this Circuit is the universal determinant . Finally , there are those that dwell on the ...
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... motion while another thing ( mind ) accepts it and is thus set into action ; the mind itself ( and not destiny ) is the prime mover . Similarly in the case of the universal system ; if all that performs act and is subject to experience ...
... motion while another thing ( mind ) accepts it and is thus set into action ; the mind itself ( and not destiny ) is the prime mover . Similarly in the case of the universal system ; if all that performs act and is subject to experience ...
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... motion in the light of sound reason is the Soul's work , while what is done where they are hindered from their own action is not so much done as suffered . Unwisdom , then , is not due to the Soul , and , in general - if we mean by Fate ...
... motion in the light of sound reason is the Soul's work , while what is done where they are hindered from their own action is not so much done as suffered . Unwisdom , then , is not due to the Soul , and , in general - if we mean by Fate ...
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... motion under their own will sometimes take the right turn , sometimes the wrong . Why the wrong course is followed is scarcely worth enquiring : a slight deviation at the beginning develops with every advance into a continuously wider ...
... motion under their own will sometimes take the right turn , sometimes the wrong . Why the wrong course is followed is scarcely worth enquiring : a slight deviation at the beginning develops with every advance into a continuously wider ...
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Absolute Magnitude action actualisation actually Adrasteia affected All-Soul animal Aphrodite attribute Authentic Existent beauty becomes belongs bodily body bring cause celestial celestial sphere character circuit colour constitutes contains contemplation contrary definite desire distinct Divine doubt earth elements engendered Enneads enter entire entity Eros essence essentially Eternity evil extent fact faculty fire further Gods heavens higher hold human Hypostasis Idea Ideal Principles Ideal-Form identical indeterminate inferior Intel Intellectual Principle Intellectual Realm Intellectual-Principle Intelligible Kind Kosmic Kosmos living things Love lower magnitude mass material Matter means measure merely mode motion move movement nature never Non-Being object once participation particular phantasm phase Plato Plotinus Poros possesses potentiality present primal produce Real-Being Reality Reason Reason-Principle remains Repose rest sense shape simply sphere Spindle of Necessity Spirit stands stars substance substratum Supernal suppose Supreme TRACTATE unity Universe virtue vision Zeus