Plotinos Complete Works Volume I

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Plotinus, 205?-270

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods

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1. 1.PLOTINOS Complete Works
2. 2.FOREWORD
3. 3.INDEX. — PLOTINOS' COMPLETE WORKS. — PLOTINIC STUDIES IN SOURCES, DEVELOPMENT AND INFLUENCE.
4. 4.CONCORDANCE OF ENNEADS AND CHRONOLOGICAL NUMBERS
5. 5.CONCORDANCE OF CHRONOLOGICAL NUMBERS AND ENNEADS
6. 6.Life of Plotinos And Order of his Writings — I. PLOTINOS, LIKE PORPHYRY, DESPISED HIS PHYSICAL NATURE, BUT A PICTURE OF HIM WAS SECURED. — II. SICKNESS AND DEATH OF PLOTINOS; HIS BIRTHDAY UNKNOWN. — III. PLOTINOS'S EARLY EDUCATION. — THE SCHOOL OF AMMONIUS. — PLOTINOS AN UNSYSTEMATIC TEACHER. — AMELIUS, PLOTINOS'S FIRST SECRETARY. — IV. HOW PORPHYRY CAME TO PLOTINOS FOR THE FIRST TIME, IN 253. — PLOTINOS'S BOOKS OF THE FIRST PERIOD (THE AMELIAN PERIOD). — V. HOW PORPHYRY CAME TO PLOTINOS FOR THE SECOND TIME (A. D. 263–269). — PLOTINOS'S BOOKS OF THE SECOND PERIOD (THE PORPHYRIAN PERIOD). — VI. PLOTINOS'S BOOKS OF THE THIRD PERIOD (THE EUSTOCHIAN PERIOD). — VII. VARIOUS DISCIPLES OF PLOTINOS. — VIII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PLOTINOS. — IX. PLOTINOS AS GUARDIAN AND ARBITRATOR. — X. HOW PLOTINOS TREATED HIS ADVERSARY, OLYMPIUS. — HOMAGE TO PLOTINOS FROM A VISITING EGYPTIAN PRIEST. — PLOTINOS'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE PUBLIC MYSTERIES. — XI. PLOTINOS AS DETECTIVE AND AS PROPHET; PORPHYRY SAVED FROM SUICIDE. — XII. THE PROJECT OF A PLATONOPOLIS COMES TO NAUGHT. — XIII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PLOTINOS'S DELIVERY. — XIV. PHILOSOPHICAL RELATIONS OF PLOTINOS. — XV. PORPHYRY EARNED RECOGNITION AT THE SCHOOL OF PLOTINOS. — XVI. PLOTINOS'S POLEMIC AGAINST THE GNOSTICS. — XVII. START OF THE AMELIO-PORPHYRIAN CONTROVERSY, OVER NUMENIUS. — XVIII. POLEMIC BETWEEN AMELIUS AND PORPHYRY; AMELIUS TEACHES PORPHYRY. — XIX. HOW THE WORKS OF PLOTINOS WERE PUT INTO SHAPE. — XX. OPINION OF LONGINUS, THE GREAT CRITIC, ABOUT PLOTINOS. — XXI. RESULTS OF LONGINUS'S CRITICISM AND VINDICATION OF PLOTINOS'S ORIGINALITY. — XXII. THE APOLLONIAN ORACLE ABOUT PLOTINOS. — XXIII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PLOTINOS; THE ECSTATIC TRANCES. — XXIV. CONTENTS OF THE VARIOUS ENNEADS. — LIFE OF PLOTINOS, BY EUNAPIUS. — LIFE OF PLOTINOS, BY SUIDAS.
7. 7.FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK SIXTH. Of Beauty. — REVIEW OF BEAUTY OF DAILY LIFE. — PROBLEMS CONCERNING HIGHER BEAUTY. — WHAT IS THE PRINCIPLE BY PARTICIPATION IN WHICH THE BODY IS BEAUTIFUL? — POLEMIC AGAINST SYMMETRY, THE STOIC DEFINITION OF BEAUTY. — BEAUTY CONSISTS IN KINSHIP TO THE SOUL. — BEAUTY CONSISTS IN PARTICIPATION IN A FORM. — THE SOUL APPRECIATES THE BEAUTIFUL BY AN AESTHETIC SENSE. — INSTANCES OF CORRESPONDENCE OF OUTER SENSE BEAUTY WITH ITS IDEA. — TRANSITION FROM SENSE BEAUTY TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY. — INTERIOR BEAUTIES COULD NOT BE APPRECIATED WITHOUT AN INTERIOR MODEL. — MORAL BEAUTIES MORE DELIGHTFUL THAN SENSE-BEAUTIES. — THEY WHO FEEL THESE SENTIMENTS MOST KEENLY ARE CALLED LOVERS. — THE CAUSE OF THESE EMOTIONS IS THE INVISIBLE SOUL. — LOVE OF BEAUTY EXPLAINED BY AVERSION FOR OPPOSITE. — UGLINESS IS ONLY A FOREIGN ACCRETION. — VIRTUES ARE ONLY PURIFICATIONS. — THE SOUL'S WELFARE IS TO RESEMBLE THE DIVINITY. — APPROACH TO THE GOOD CONSISTS IN SIMPLIFICATION. — THE SUPREME PURPOSE OF LIFE IS THE ECSTATICAL VISION OF GOD. — THE METHOD TO ACHIEVE ECSTASY IS TO CLOSE THE EYES OF THE BODY. — HOW TO FLY TO OUR FATHERLAND. — HOW TO TRAIN THIS INTERIOR VISION. — THE LANDMARKS OF THE PATH TO ECSTASY. — REFERENCES.
8. 8.FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK SEVEN. Of the Immortality of the Soul: Polemic Against Materialism. — IS THE SOUL IMMORTAL? — THE BODY AS THE INSTRUMENT OF THE SOUL. — THE BODY IS COMPOSITE, AND THEREFORE PERISHABLE. — THE SOUL IS THE INDIVIDUALITY, AS ITS FORM, AND AS A SKILLED WORKMAN. — IF THE SOUL IS INCORPOREAL, WE MUST STUDY INCORPOREALITY. — A.—THE SOUL IS NOT CORPOREAL (AS THE STOICS THOUGHT). — NEITHER MIXTURE NOR ITS PRINCIPLE WILL EXPLAIN LIFE AS A BODY. — NO ATOMIC AGGREGATION COULD PRODUCE A SELF-HARMONIZING UNITY. — SOUL IS A SIMPLE SUBSTANCE, WHILE EVERY BODY IS COMPOSED OF MATTER AND FORM. — IF SOUL IS ONLY AN AFFECTION OF MATTER, WHENCE THAT AFFECTION? — NO BODY COULD SUBSIST WITHOUT THE POWER OF THE UNIVERSAL SOUL. — IF THE SOUL IS NOT SIMPLE MATTER, SHE MUST BE A SUBSTANTIAL FORM. — THE BODY EXERTS A UNIFORM ACTION, WHILE THE SOUL EXERTS A VARIED ONE. — THREE MORE PROOFS OF THE INCORPOREITY OF THE SOUL. — BODIES CAN LOSE PARTS, NOT SO THE SOUL. — THE SOUL IS EVERYWHERE ENTIRE; THAT IS NOT THE CASE WITH THE BODY. — THE BODY COULD NOT POSSESS SENSATION. — IMPOSSIBILITY FOR THE BODY TO HAVE SENSATION. — AGAINST THE STOICS, SENSATIONS ARE NOT IMPRESSIONS OF A SEAL ON WAX. — SENSATION CANNOT BE RELAYED FROM SENSE-ORGAN TO DIRECTING PRINCIPLE. — THE BODY CANNOT THINK. — THE BODY CANNOT POSSESS VIRTUE. — IF VIRTUE WERE CORPOREAL IT WOULD BE PERISHABLE. — BODIES ARE ACTIVE ONLY BY MEANS OF INCORPOREAL POWERS. — WHY BODIES ARE ACTIVATED BY INCORPOREAL POWERS. — THE SOUL CAN PENETRATE THE BODY; BUT TWO BODIES CANNOT PENETRATE EACH OTHER. — THE STOIC DEVELOPMENT FROM HABIT TO SOUL AND INTELLIGENCE WOULD MAKE THE PERFECT ARISE FROM THE IMPERFECT, AN IMPOSSIBILITY. — II. THE SOUL IS NEITHER THE HARMONY NOR ENTELECHY OF THE BODY—THE SOUL IS THE HARMONY OF THE BODY; AGAINST THE PYTHAGOREANS. — WHY THE SOUL IS NOT A HARMONY. — THE SOUL IS NOT THE ENTELECHY OF THE BODY (POLEMIC AGAINST ARISTOTLE). ARISTOTLE'S STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM. 75 — IF THE SOUL IS AN ENTELECHY, SHE IS A DIFFERENT ONE THAN ARISTOTLE'S. — IF AN ENTELECHY BE GRANTED, IT IS INSEPARABLE FROM THE BODY. — NEITHER COULD THE SOUL OF GROWTH BE AN ENTELECHY. — THE ENTELECHY IS NOT A FORM OF THE BODY, AS THE SOUL TRANSMIGRATES. — THE SOUL IS AN INCORPOREAL AND IMMORTAL ESSENCE. THE SOUL BEING NONE OF CORPOREAL POSSIBILITIES, MUST BE INCORPOREAL. — THE PERSISTENCE OF THE CHANGEABLE IMPLIES THE ETERNAL IN THE BACKGROUND. 80 — THE SOUL IS INCORPOREAL BECAUSE OF HER KINSHIP WITH THE DIVINE. — THE SOUL, LIKE OTHER THINGS, SHOULD BE JUDGED IN HER PUREST CONDITION. — EVEN ON THE STOIC HYPOTHESIS THE SOUL MUST BE IMMORTAL. — THERE IS NO CONCEIVABLE WAY IN WHICH SOUL COULD PERISH. — DESCENT INTO THE BODY NEED NOT CONFLICT WITH THE ETERNITY OF SOUL. — THE SOUL AS THE ARTIST OF THE UNIVERSE. — ALL SOULS HAVE IMMORTALITY, EVEN IF SUNK INTO ANIMALS OR PLANTS. — EVEN IF THE SOUL HAS DIFFERENT PARTS, THE ORIGINAL PARTS SURVIVE. — THE HISTORIC EVIDENCE FOR IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.
9. 9.THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK FIRST. Concerning Fate. — POSSIBLE THEORIES ABOUT FATE. — EXCEPT THE FIRST, ALL THINGS ARE CAUSED. — STOIC AND EPICUREAN CAUSELESS ORIGIN REALLY THE UTMOST DETERMINISM. — EVERY GOOD THING HAS SOME CAUSE; NATURE BEING THE ULTIMATE CAUSE. — PROXIMATE CAUSES ARE UNSATISFACTORY; WE MUST SEEK THE ULTIMATE ONES. — MATERIALISTS SUPPORT DETERMINISM. — HERACLITUS, THOUGH MORE SPIRITUAL, IS ALSO DETERMINIST. — THE ASTROLOGERS MAKE COSMIC DEDUCTIONS FROM PROGNOSTICATION. — THE STOIC DETERMINISM IS BASED ON VARIOUS THEORIES. — THE PHYSICAL THEORIES ARE ABSURD. — THE STOIC POLEMIC AGAINST THE EPICUREANS. — APPLICATION OF THIS POLEMIC TO THE PHYSICISTS. — RESTATEMENT OF HERACLITUS'S POSITION. — THIS WOULD INTERFERE WITH SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND RESPONSIBILITY. — RESTATEMENT OF THE ASTROLOGICAL THEORY OF FATE. — REFUTATION OF THE ASTROLOGICAL SYSTEM. — HOROSCOPES QUESTIONED; THEY DO NOT ACCOUNT FOR SIMULTANEOUS DIFFERENCES. — HEREDITY MORE IMPORTANT THAN STAR-INFLUENCE; CONTINUATION. — STARS AFFECT THE PHYSICAL, NOT THE MENTAL BEING. — IRRATIONAL CLAIMS OF ASTROLOGERS. — STARS SERVE AS LETTERS IN WHICH TO READ NATURE. — RESTATEMENT OF THE STOIC DOCTRINE, AND THE HERACLITIAN. — ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIA'S POLEMIC AGAINST THE STOICS. — THE HUMAN SOUL AS AN INDEPENDENT PRINCIPLE. — THE SOUL IS FREE WHEN FOLLOWING REASON. — THE SOUL OBEYS FATE ONLY WHEN EVIL.
10. 10.FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK FIRST. Of the Being of the Soul.
11. 11.FIFTH ENNEAD, BOOK NINE. Of Intelligence, Ideas and Essence. — THE SENSUAL MAN, THE MORAL, AND THE SPIRITUAL. — THE HIGHER REGION REACHED ONLY BY THOSE WHO ARE BORN PHILOSOPHERS. — LOVE IS TRANSFORMED INTO PROGRESSIVELY HIGHER STAGES. — PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE. — IN THE HUMAN WORLD EVERYTHING IS A COMPOSITE OF FORM AND MATTER. — THE WORLD-SOUL ALSO IS A COMPOUND OF FORM AND MATTER. — WHY OUR ASCENT CANNOT STOP WITH THE SOUL. — INTELLIGENCE IS IN ACTUALIZATION BECAUSE ITS THOUGHT IS IDENTICAL WITH ITS ESSENCE OR EXISTENCE. — REASONS, AS ARCHETYPES, MUST HAVE EXISTED BEFORE STOIC "HABIT," NATURE OR SOUL. — INTELLIGENCE IS POSTULATED BY THE GENERAL NECESSITIES OF THE WORLD. — INTELLIGENCE CONTAINS ALL BEINGS GENERATIVELY. — THERE ARE SCIENTIFIC NOTIONS THAT ARE POSTERIOR, BUT SOME THAT ARE PRIOR. — THOUGHT IS THE FORM, SHAPE THE ACTUALIZATION OF THE BEING. — INTELLIGENCE CONTAINS THE UNIVERSAL ARCHETYPE. — IN THE SENSE-WORLD ONLY THOSE THINGS THAT ARE FORMS PROCEED FROM INTELLIGENCE. — NATURAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE DERIVED FROM THE CATEGORIES IN THE INTELLIGIBLE. — THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD FAILS TO CONTAIN EARTHLY IMPERFECTIONS. — SOME ARTS ARE PURELY EARTHLY; OTHERS, LIKE MUSIC, INTELLIGIBLE. — THERE ARE MANY AUXILIARY ARTS WHICH HELP THE PROGRESS OF NATURE. — OTHER ARTS ARE INTELLIGIBLE WHEN APPLIED TO THE INTELLIGIBLE. — THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD CONTAINS ONLY UNIVERSAL IDEAS; PARTICULARITIES ARE DERIVED FROM MATTER. — BESIDES IDEAS OF INDIVIDUAL SOULS AND INTELLIGENCE, THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD CONTAINS THE SOUL ITSELF AND INTELLIGENCE ITSELF. — THE SUPREME BEING ENTIRELY ONE DOES NOT EXPLAIN THE ORIGIN OF THE MANIFOLD. — THE SOUL RECEIVES ACCIDENTS FROM MATTER, BUT DEFECTS ARE NOT IN THE INTELLIGIBLE. — NOT ALL EARTHLY ENTITIES HAVE CORRESPONDING IDEAS. — EVEN THE ARTS ARE DEPENDENT ON THE SOUL. — DIFFICULT PASSAGES.
12. 12.FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHTH. Of the Descent of the Soul Into the Body. 149 — THE EXPERIENCE OF ECSTASY LEADS TO QUESTIONS. — HERACLITUS, THE ORIGINATOR OF THESE QUESTIONS, ANSWERS THEM OBSCURELY. — EMPEDOCLES, AS A POET, TELLS OF PYTHAGOREAN MYTHS. — PLATO SAYS MANY CONTRADICTORY THINGS THAT ARE BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE. — QUESTIONS RAISED BY PLATO'S THEORIES. — HUMAN BODIES ARE MORE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE THAN THE WORLD-BODY. — HOW THE TWO-FOLD SOUL EXERTS A TWO-FOLD PROVIDENCE. — STAR-SOULS, LIKE UNINCARNATE SOULS, GOVERN THE WORLD UNTROUBLEDLY. — DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HUMAN AND COSMIC INCARNATION. — THE RATIONAL SOUL POSSESSES ALSO AN INDIVIDUALITY. — INCARNATE SOULS WEAKEN BECAUSE THEY CONTEMPLATE THE INDIVIDUAL. — THIS PROCESS EXPLAINS THE CLASSIC EXPRESSIONS ABOUT HER CONDITION. — SOULS AS AMPHIBIANS. — SOULS DESCENDING TO HELP ARE SENT BY GOD. — THE TWO POSSIBLE FAULTS OF THE SOUL. — PROMPT FLIGHT HERE BELOW LEAVES THE SOUL UNHARMED BY HER STAY HERE. — CONTINUOUS PROCESSION NECESSARY TO THE SUPREME. — SENSE-OBJECTS ARE NECESSARY AS REVEALERS OF THE ETERNAL. — THE SOUL'S NATURE IS OF AN INTERMEDIATE KIND. — THE PROCESSION OF INTELLIGENCE IS AN EXCURSION DOWNWARDS AND UPWARDS. — THE UNIVERSAL SOUL, HOWEVER, IS NOT DISTURBED BY THE URGENCIES BELOW HER. — THE SOUL DOES NOT ENTIRELY ENTER INTO THE BODY.
13. 13.FIFTH ENNEAD, BOOK FOUR. How What is After the First Proceeds Therefrom; of the One. — NECESSITY OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE FIRST. — THE FIRST NECESSARILY BEGETS A SECOND, WHICH MUST BE PERFECT. — INTELLIGENCE CANNOT BE THE FIRST, AND RANKS ALL ELSE. — THE FIRST AND SECOND AS HIGHER AND LOWER INTELLIGIBLE ENTITIES. — THE SECOND IS THE ACTUALIZATION OF THE POTENTIALITY OF THE FIRST. — HOW THE FIRST IS ABOVE ALL BEING.
14. 14.FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK NINE. Whether All Souls Form a Single One? — IF ALL SOULS BE ONE IN THE WORLD-SOUL, WHY SHOULD THEY NOT TOGETHER FORM ONE? — SOULS MAY NOT FORM A NUMERIC UNITY, BUT MAY FORM A GENERIC UNITY. — THE UNITY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SEVERAL SOULS NEED NOT IMPLY THEIR BEING IDENTICAL. — SYMPATHY DOES NOT FORCE IDENTITY OF SENSATION. — UNITY OF ALL BEINGS IMPLIED BY SYMPATHY, LOVE, AND MAGIC ENCHANTMENT. — WHAT OF THE DIFFERENCES OF RATIONALITY, IF THE SOUL BE ONE? — THE POWERS OF THE SOUL ARE NOT EXERCISED EVERYWHERE BECAUSE THEY DIFFER. — THE BODY'S POWER OF GROWTH IS DERIVED FROM THE WHOLE, AND THE SOUL; BUT NOT FROM OUR SOUL. — THE UNITY OF THE SOULS IS A CONDITION OF THEIR MULTIPLICITY. — THE SOUL CAN BEGET MANY BECAUSE SHE IS AN INCORPOREAL ESSENCE. — HOW AN ESSENCE CAN BE ONE IN A MULTITUDE OF SOULS IS ILLUSTRATED BY SEED. — THIS MIRACLE IS EXPLAINED BY THE USE OF THE CONCEPTION OF POTENTIALITY. — DIFFICULT AS THESE EXPLANATIONS ARE, THEY ARE CLEAR INTELLIGIBLY.
15. 15.SIXTH ENNEAD, BOOK NINE. Of the Good and the One. — UNITY NECESSARY TO EXISTENCE OF ALL BEINGS. — THE SOUL MAY IMPART UNITY, BUT IS NOT UNITY. — BEING AND ESSENCE IDENTICAL WITH UNITY. — UNITY IS NOT A NUMBERING DEVICE, BUT IS IDENTICAL WITH EXISTENCE. — EVEN UNIVERSAL ESSENCE CONTAINS MANIFOLDNESS. — BESIDES, ABSOLUTE UNITY IS THE FIRST, WHICH INTELLIGENCE IS NOT. — UNITY AS ABOVE ALL THINGS, INTELLIGENCE AND ESSENCE. — UNITY IS DIFFICULT TO ASCERTAIN BECAUSE THE SOUL IS FEARFUL OF SUCH ABSTRUSE RESEARCHES. — THE PATH OF SIMPLIFICATION TO UNITY. — UNITY AS THE UNIFORM IN ITSELF AND FORMLESS SUPERFORM. — WHY IT IS NOT STABLE, THOUGH IT DOES NOT MOVE. — BEING A PRIMARY CAUSE, UNITY IS NOTHING CONTINGENT. — UNITY CANNOT BE DEFINED; WE CAN ONLY REFER TO IT BY OUR FEELINGS OF IT. — WE CANNOT COMPREHEND UNITY, WHICH WE APPROACH ONLY BY A PRESENCE. — THOSE WHO SEE GOD WITHOUT EMOTION HAVE FAILED TO RID THEMSELVES OF PHYSICAL HINDRANCES, AND HAVE NOT BECOME UNIFIED. — HOW SUCH AS RISE AS FAR AS THE SOUL MAY ACHIEVE FAITH IN THE INTELLIGIBLE. — THE SUPREME IS ONE ONLY IN A FIGURATIVE SENSE. — THE ONE MAY BE CONCEIVED OF AS INDIVISIBLE AND INFINITE. — THE ONE IS SELF-SUFFICIENT AND NEEDS NOTHING FOR ESTABLISHMENT. — THE SUPREME, AS SUPERGOODNESS, COULD NOT ASPIRE TO ANYTHING ELSE. — THE ONE IS NOT THINKER BUT THOUGHT ITSELF. — THE SOUL MUST BE STRIPPED OF FORM TO BE ILLUMINATED BY PRIMARY NATURE. — ON SELF-KNOWLEDGE DEPENDS RECOGNITION OF DIVINE KINSHIP. — TO BE ATTACHED TO THE CENTRE CONSTITUTES DIVINITY. — THE CELEBRATED SIMILE OF THE MAN WHOSE FEET ARE IN A BATH-TUB. — THE FAMOUS ILLUSTRATION OF THE COSMIC CHORAL BALLET. — FOLLOWING NUMENIUS, PLOTINOS DESCRIBES THE SUPREME AS GIVER. — THE PARABLE OF CUPID AND PSYCHE, LEADING UP TO DIVINIZATION. — WHY DOES THE SOUL AFTER REACHING YONDER NOT STAY THERE? — ILLUSTRATION FROM THE SECRECY OF THE MYSTERY-RITES. — THE TRANCE OR ENTHEASM OF ECSTASY. — ABOVE BEAUTY AND ABOVE VIRTUE THIS ECSTATIC SIMPLIFICATION IS A COMMUNION. — THE SPIRITUAL TRUTH OF THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES. — SUBSEQUENT ECSTATIC EXPERIENCES OF THE SOUL. — THE SOUL'S ULTIMATE FATE IS DETACHMENT AND FLIGHT.
16. 16.FIFTH ENNEAD, BOOK ONE. The Three Principal Hypostases, or Forms of Existence. — AUDACITY THE CAUSE OF HUMAN APOSTASY FROM THE DIVINITY. — CONVERSION IS EFFECTED BY DEPRECIATION OF EXTERNALITIES, AND APPRECIATION OF THE SOUL HERSELF. — KINSHIP OF THE HUMAN SOUL WITH THE DIVINE. — SOULS ARE DIVINE BECAUSE THE WORLD WAS CREATED BY THE UNIVERSAL SOUL. — SOUL-POWER REVEALED IN THE SIMULTANEITY OF CONTROL OVER THE WORLD. — AS LIFE TRANSFIGURES MATTER, SO THE UNIVERSAL SOUL GLORIFIES US. — THE SOUL AS THE HYPOSTATIC ACTUALIZATION OF INTELLIGENCE. — THE SOUL'S RELATION TO INTELLIGENCE IS THAT OF MATTER TO FORM. — THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD IS THE ARCHETYPE OF OURS. — ABOVE INTELLIGENCE AND EXISTENCE IS THEIR SIMULTANEOUS PRINCIPLE. — THE SIX CATEGORIES FROM WHICH ALL THINGS ARE DERIVED. — THE SOUL AS NUMBER CONNECTED WITH INTELLIGENCE. — THOUGHT IS ACTUALIZATION OF SIGHT, AND BOTH FORM BUT ONE THING. — MYSTERY OR DERIVATION OF SECOND FROM FIRST. — GENERATION IS THE RADIATION OF AN IMAGE. — INTELLIGIBLE REST IS THE DETERMINATION AND FORM BY WHICH THEY SUBSIST. — MYTHS OF SATURN, JUPITER AND RHEA. — PLATO TEACHES THREE SPHERES OF EXISTENCE. 242 — THIS DOCTRINE TAUGHT BY PARMENIDES. — ANAXAGORAS TEACHES THE SAME THING. — HERACLITUS ALSO TAUGHT THE SAME THING. — EMPEDOCLES TAUGHT THE SAME THING. — ARISTOTLE TAUGHT THE SAME THING. — WHAT THE PYTHAGOREANS TAUGHT ON THE SUBJECT. — TO THE THREE PRINCIPLES IN THE UNIVERSE MUST CORRESPOND THREE PRINCIPLES IN US. — THERE MUST BE AN OBJECTIVE JUSTICE AND BEAUTY TO WHICH WE ARE INTIMATELY UNITED. — THESE PRINCIPLES LAST EVER; EVEN THOUGH WE ARE DISTRACTED FROM THEM.
17. 17.FIFTH ENNEAD, BOOK TWO. Of Generation, and of the Order of things that Rank Next After the First. — WHY FROM UNITY THIS MANIFOLD WORLD WAS ABLE TO COME FORTH. — BY SIMILAR EFFUSION OF SUPERABUNDANCE INTELLIGENCE CREATED THE SOUL. — SIMILARLY THE UNIVERSAL SOUL, BY PROCESSION, BEGETS NATURE. — PROCESSION IS UNIVERSAL FROM HIGHEST TO LOWEST. — THE SOUL IS NOWHERE BUT IN A PRINCIPLE THAT IS EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE. — THE SOUL MAY REMAIN IN AN INTERMEDIATE LIFE. — ALL THESE THINGS ARE IN INTELLIGENCE, WITHOUT CONSTITUTING IT. — THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS ONE IMMENSE CONCATENATION OF ALL THINGS.
18. 18.SECOND ENNEAD, BOOK FOUR. Of Matter. — MATTER AS SUBSTRATE AND RESIDENCE OF FORMS. — THE STOIC CONCEPTION OF MATTER. — MATTER ACCORDING TO THE PYTHAGOREANS, PLATONISTS AND ARISTOTELIANS. — THE ARISTOTELIAN INTELLIGIBLE MATTER. — INTELLIGIBLE MATTER IS NOT SHAPELESS. — THE NATURE OF IDEAS IMPLIES AN INDIVIDUAL FORM, WHICH AGAIN IMPLIES A SUBSTRATE. — RELYING ON THE PUN BETWEEN WORLD AND ADORNMENT, PLOTINOS CONCLUDES THAT IF THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD BE THE IMAGE OF THIS, IT MUST ALSO BE A COMPOSITE OF FORM AND MATTER. — THE BOTTOM OF EVERYTHING IS MATTER, WHICH IS RELATIVE DARKNESS. — INTELLIGIBLE MATTER CONSISTS OF REAL BEING, ESPECIALLY AS SHAPED. — THE CATEGORIES OF MOVEMENT AND DIFFERENCE APPLIED TO INTELLIGIBLES. — SUBSTRATE IS DEMANDED BY TRANSFORMATION OF ELEMENTS, BY THEIR DESTRUCTION AND DISSOLUTION. — THE VIEWS OF EMPEDOCLES AND ANAXAGORAS ON MATTER. — REFUTATION OF ANAXIMANDER'S VIEWS ABOUT MATTER. — REFUTATION OF DEMOCRITUS'S ATOMS AS EXPLANATIONS OF MATTER. — MATTER IS NOTHING COMPOSITE, BUT BY NATURE SIMPLE AND ONE. — MATTER AND THE INFORMING PRINCIPLE MUST BE CONTEMPORARIES TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIR MUTUAL RELATIONS. — ANTI-STOIC POLEMIC, AGAINST THE CORPOREITY OF MATTER AND QUANTITY. — BY ABSTRACTION, THE SOUL CAN FIND AND DESCRY THE QUALITY-LESS THING-IN-ITSELF: THIS PROCESS IS CALLED "BASTARD REASONING." — DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MENTAL BLANK AND IMPRESSION OF THE SHAPELESS. — THE COMPOSITION OF A BODY NEEDS A SUBSTRATE. — MATTER AS THE IMAGE OF EXTENSION, CAN YET BE RESIDENCE OF FORM. — POLEMIC AGAINST MODERATUS OF GADES, FORMS DEMAND A RESIDENCE, VASE, or LOCATION. — NOT EVEN CORPOREITY INHERES IN MATTER WHICH IS REACHED BY BASTARD REASONING. — THE SUBSTRATE IS NOT A QUALITY COMMON TO ALL ELEMENTS; FOR THUS IT WOULD NOT BE INDETERMINATE. — EVEN THIS PRIVATION MIGHT BE CONSIDERED A QUALITY; BUT SUCH A USE OF THE TERM WOULD DESTROY ALL COHERENT REASONING. — BY A PUN BETWEEN "DIFFERENCE" AND "OTHERNESS," PLOTINOS DEFINES THE CHARACTERISTIC OF MATTER AS BEING A DISPOSITION TO BECOME SOMETHING ELSE. — PRIVATION IS A FORM OF MATTER. — PRIVATION IS NONENTITY, AND ADDS NO NEW CONCEPT. — BEING SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL, BUT LOGICALLY DISTINCT IS NONSENSE. — MATTER AS THE INFINITE IN ITSELF. — THE INFINITE MAY BE EITHER IDEAL OR REAL, INFINITE OR INDEFINITE. — MATTER AS THE INFINITE IN ITSELF. — MATTER IS NONESSENTIAL OTHERNESS. — INDIGENCE IS NECESSARILY EVIL. — THE RELATION OF BOTH KINDS OF MATTER TO ESSENCE.
19. 19.THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK NINE. Fragments About the Soul, the Intelligence, and the Good. — DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE AND THE EXISTING ANIMAL. — RELATION BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE AND THE INTELLIGIBLE. — THE WORLD-SOUL IS THE CONCEIVING-PRINCIPLE. — HOW THE SOUL ASCENDS TO THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD. THE INTELLIGIBLE IS POSSESSED BY TOUCHING IT WITH THE BEST PART OF ONESELF. — OF THE DESCENT OF THE SOUL INTO THE BODY. THE SOUL IS NOT IN THE BODY; BUT THE BODY IS IN THE SOUL. — INDIVIDUAL SOULS, HOWEVER, MAY BE SAID TO COME AND GO. — THE UNIVERSAL SOUL EVER REMAINS IN THE INTELLIGIBLE. — HOW THE SOUL INCARNATES. — BY ITS POWER, THE ONE IS EVERYWHERE. — THE SOUL RECEIVES HER FORM FROM INTELLIGENCE. — WE THINK AN INTELLECTUAL NATURE BY THINKING OURSELVES. — THE ONE IS SUPERIOR TO REST AND MOTION. — OF ACTUALITY AND POTENTIALITY. — THE GOOD IS SUPERIOR TO THOUGHT; THE HIGHEST DIVINITIES ARE NOT THE SUPREME. — THE GOOD IS SUPERIOR EVEN TO SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIFE. — THE SUPREME IS THEREFORE ABOVE THOUGHT.
20. 20.SECOND ENNEAD, BOOK TWO. About the Movement of the Heavens. — QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MOVEMENTS OF THE HEAVENS. — THREE KINDS OF MOVEMENT. — FIRE MOVES STRAIGHT ONLY PRELIMINARILY. — WHY SOUL ASSUMES A CIRCULAR MOTION. — WHY THE HEAVENS DO NOT REMAIN STILL. — HOW OTHER BEINGS MOVE. 314 — WHY THE HEAVENS MOVE IN A CIRCLE. — DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CENTRE OF THE SOUL AND THE BODY. — THE ADDITION OF OUR BODIES INTRODUCES CONFLICTING MOTIONS. — HOW MOTION IS IMPARTED TO LOWER EXISTENCES.
21. 21.THIRD ENNEAD, BOOK FOUR. Of Our Individual Guardian. — OUTLINE OF NATURES IN THE UNIVERSE. — AFTER DEATH, MAN BECOMES WHAT HE HAS LIVED. — LAWS OF TRANSMIGRATION. — OUR GUARDIAN IS THE NEXT HIGHER FACULTY OF OUR BEING. — THE INTELLIGIBLE DOES NOT DESCEND; IT IS THE SENSE-WORLD THAT RISES. — THE GUIDANCE OF THE GUARDIAN DOES NOT INTERFERE WITH MORAL RESPONSIBILITY. — THE SOUL HAS THE POWER TO CONFORM TO HER CHARACTER THE DESTINY ALLOTTED TO HER. — OUR GUARDIAN IS BOTH RELATED TO US, AND INDEPENDENT OF US. — OUR GUARDIAN HELPS US TO CARRY OUT THE DESTINY WE HAVE CHOSEN. — THAT MAN IS VIRTUOUS WHOSE HIGHEST PRINCIPLE IS ACTIVE WITHIN HIM. — BETWEEN INCARNATIONS IS THE TIME OF JUDGMENT AND EXPIATION. — EVEN THE SOULS ENTERING INTO ANIMAL BODIES HAVE A GUARDIAN. — CONDITION OF SOULS IN THE HIGHER REGIONS. — FATE OF THE DIVISIBLE HUMAN SOUL. — FATE CONSISTS IN THE UNPREDICTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH ALTER THE LIFE-CURRENTS.
22. 22.FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK NINE. Of Suicide. — EVIL EFFECTS OF SUICIDE ON THE SOUL HERSELF. — HOW TO DETACH THE SOUL FROM THE BODY NATURALLY. — VOLUNTARY SOUL-DETACHMENT IS FORBIDDEN. — SUICIDE UNAVAILABLE EVEN TO AVOID INSANITY. — SUICIDE IS UNADVISABLE, FOR TWO REASONS.
23. 23.SECOND ENNEAD, BOOK SIX. Of Essence and Being. — DISTINCTION BETWEEN ESSENCE AND BEING. — DISTINCTION BETWEEN COMPLEMENTS OF BEING, AND QUALITIES. — DISTINCTION BETWEEN ESSENTIAL AND MODAL QUALITIES. — DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHATNESS AND AFFECTIONS OF BEING. — ACTUALIZED BEING LESS PERFECT THAN ESSENCE. — SUCHNESS IS LATER THAN BEING AND QUIDDITY. — BEING CANNOT PRECEDE SUCH BEING. — FORM IS NOT A QUALITY; BUT A REASON. — QUALITIES ARE ACTS OF BEING, PROCEEDING FROM REASONS AND ESSENTIAL POTENTIALITIES. — DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INTELLIGIBLE AND SENSE-QUALITY. — QUALITIES ARE ACCIDENTAL SHAPES OF BEING.
24. 24.FIFTH ENNEAD, BOOK SEVEN. Do Ideas of Individuals Exist? — TWO POSSIBLE HYPOTHESES OF IDEAS OF INDIVIDUALS. — THE FIRST (NON-PLATONIC) HYPOTHESIS ALONE RIGHT. — DIFFERENCE OF THINGS DEPEND ON THEIR SEMINAL REASONS. — SEX ALONE WOULD NOT ACCOUNT FOR THIS DIVERSITY. — EXPLANATION OF THE DIVERSITY FROM SAME PARENTS — VARIETY MAY DEPEND ON THE LATENCY OF PART OF SEMINAL REASONS. — LEIBNITZ'S DOCTRINE OF THE INDISCERNIBLES. — THERE ARE DIFFERENT IDEAS FOR TWINS, BRETHREN, OR WORKS OF ART.
25. 25.FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK TWO. Concerning Virtue. — VIRTUE THE ROAD TO ESCAPE EVILS. — CAN THESE VIRTUES BE ASCRIBED TO THE DIVINITY? — HOMELY VIRTUES ASSIMILATE US TO DIVINITY ONLY PARTIALLY. — THE DIVINE NEED NOT POSSESS THE LOWER VIRTUES BY WHICH WE ARE ASSIMILATED TO HIM. — THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF RESEMBLANCE. — HOW HOMELY VIRTUES MAY ASSIMILATE MAN TO THE SUPREME. — PLATO DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN THE HOMELY AND THE HIGHER VIRTUES. — HOW VIRTUES PURIFY. — SELF-CONTROL IS ASSIMILATION TO THE DIVINITY. — PURIFICATION PRODUCES CONVERSION; AND VIRTUE MAKES USE OF THIS. — THE LIMIT OF PURIFICATION IS THAT OF THE SOUL'S SELF-CONTROL. — THE INFLUENCE OF REASON IS SUGGESTIVE. — THE GOAL OF PURIFICATION IS SECOND DIVINITY, INTELLIGENCE. — THE HIGHER VIRTUES MERGE INTO WISDOM. — INCARNATE JUSTICE IS INDIVIDUAL; IF ABSOLUTE, IT IS INDIVISIBLE. — THE HIGHER FORMS OF THE VIRTUES. — EVEN THE LOWER VIRTUES ARE MUTUALLY RELATED. — THE HIGHER VIRTUES IMPLY THE LOWER; BUT NOT CONVERSELY. — PRUDENCE TO DECIDE WHETHER IT IS POSSIBLE TO POSSESS VIRTUES UNSYMMETRICALLY? — THE HOMELY VIRTUES MUST BE SUPPLEMENTED BY DIVINE DISCONTENT.
26. 26.FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK THREE. Of Dialectic, or the Means of Raising the Soul to the Intelligible World. — SEARCH FOR A DEMONSTRATION OF DIVINITY SUCH THAT THE DEMONSTRATION ITSELF WILL DEIFY. — METHODS DIFFER ACCORDING TO INDIVIDUALS; BUT THERE ARE CHIEFLY TWO. — RETURN OF THE SOUL OF THE PHILOSOPHER, MUSICIAN AND LOVER. — HOW THE MUSICIAN RISES TO THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD. — HOW THE LOVER RISES TO THE INTELLIGIBLE. — HOW THE PHILOSOPHER RISES TO THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD. — WHAT DIALECTICS IS. — DIALECTICS IS THE HIGHEST PART OF PHILOSOPHY. — THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY CROWNED BY DIALECTICS. — WITHOUT DIALECTICS LOWER KNOWLEDGE WOULD BE IMPERFECT.
27. 27.FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK TWO. How the Soul Mediates Between Indivisible and Divisible Essence. — OUTLINE OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF IV. 7. — EXISTENCE OF DIVISIBLE BEINGS. — DESCRIPTION OF INDIVISIBLE ESSENCE. — BETWEEN THEM IS AN INDIVISIBLE ESSENCE WHICH BECOMES DIVISIBLE WITHIN BODIES. — BY PROCESSION THE SOUL CONNECTS THE TWO. — DIVISION AS THE PROPERTY OF BODIES, BUT NOT THE CHARACTERISTIC OF SOUL. — SOUL AS BOTH ESSENTIALLY DIVISIBLE AND INDIVISIBLE. — POLEMIC AGAINST THE STOIC PREDOMINATING PART OF THE SOUL. — THE SOUL HAS TO BE BOTH ONE AND MANIFOLD, EVEN ON THE STOIC HYPOTHESES.
28. 28.FOOTNOTES
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