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The Enneads - MacKenna
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Above
[An objector speaks-] "But the unity we thus possess comes by our acceptance of a certain idea or impression from things external; it is a notion der...
Above-World
What definition are we to give to Eternity? Can it be identified with the [divine or] Intellectual Substance itself? This would be like identifying T...
Absence
But is Absence this privation itself, or something in which this Privation is lodged? Anyone maintaining that Matter and Privation are one and the sa...
Absolute
It can scarcely prove to be The Good: The Absolute Good cannot be thought to have taken up its abode with Evil. We can think of it only as something ...
Absolute Beauty
This natural tendency must be made the starting-point to such a man; he must be drawn by the tone, rhythm and design in things of sense: he must lear...
Absolute Being
Stability, then, may also be taken as a single genus. Obviously distinct from Motion and perhaps even its contrary, that it is also distinct from Bei...
Absolute Evil
In what substantial-form [hypostasis] then is all this to be found - not as accident but as the very substance itself? For if Evil can enter into oth...
Absolute Formlessness
There must, then, be some Undetermination-Absolute, some Absolute Formlessness; all the qualities cited as characterizing the Nature of Evil must be ...
Absolute Good
It can scarcely prove to be The Good: The Absolute Good cannot be thought to have taken up its abode with Evil. We can think of it only as something ...
Absolute Living-Form
In the Intellectuals, all, if the Absolute Living-Form, there is a multiple - a triad, let us say - that Triad of the Living-Form is of the nature of...
Absolute Magnitude
Nor can we, on the other hand, think that matter is simply Absolute Magnitude. EnneadsIII617
Magnitude is not, like Matter, a receptacle; it is an...
Magnitude is not, like Matter, a receptacle; it is an...
absolute unity
We must not muddle together Being and Non-Being, time and eternity, not even everlasting time with the eternal; we cannot make laps and stages of an ...
Absolute Unity
Again, whence does Matter derive its unifying power? It is assuredly not the Absolute Unity, but has only that of participation in Unity. EnneadsVI12...
Absolute-Being
What will this be? That Kind whose place is below all the patterns, forms, shapes, measurements and limits, that which has no trace of good by any ti...
Absolute-Intellect
It remains to decide whether only what is known in sense exists There or whether, on the contrary, as Absolute-Man differs from individual man, so th...
Absolute-Man
It remains to decide whether only what is known in sense exists There or whether, on the contrary, as Absolute-Man differs from individual man, so th...
Absolute-Principle
Besides quantitativeness itself [the Absolute-Principle] does not possess quantity, which belongs only to things participating in it, a consideration...
Absolute-Rectitude
But taking Rectitude to be the due ordering of faculty, does it not always imply the existence of diverse parts? No: There is a Rectitude of Diversit...
Absolute-Soul
It remains to decide whether only what is known in sense exists There or whether, on the contrary, as Absolute-Man differs from individual man, so th...
accidental
Those that refuse to place the Sage aloft in the Intellectual Realm but drag him down to the accidental, dreading accident for him, have substituted ...
Act
Acts
Act, with the capital, usually translates the difficult word energeia and stands for the Expression of the Identity of any being or for its c...
Act, with the capital, usually translates the difficult word energeia and stands for the Expression of the Identity of any being or for its c...
Act of the Intellect
But how can I form the conception of the sizelessness of Matter? How do you form the concept of any absence of quality? What is the Act of the Intell...
Action
Action, thus, is set towards contemplation and an object of contemplation, so that even those whose life is in doing have seeing as their object; wha...
active principle
That principle [of the new birth] strives to gain control, and if it succeeds it also lives and itself, in turn, possesses a guiding spirit [its next...
Activities
Then, everything, in the intellectual is in actualization and so all There is Actuality? Why not? If that Nature is rightly said to be "Sleepless," a...
Activity
What, then, distinguishes Quality in the Intellectual Realm from that here, if both are Acts? The difference is that these ["Quality-Activities"] in ...
Acts
Then yet again, the one word Intellection covers two distinct Acts? Rather there is primal Intellection and there is Intellection deriving from the P...
actuality
Well, perhaps even the less good has its contributory value in the All. Perhaps there is no need that everything be good. Contraries may co-operate; ...
Actuality
A distinction is made between things existing actually and things existing potentially; a certain Actuality, also, is spoken of as a really existent ...
actualization
Can we distinguish between Actuality [an absolute, abstract Principle] and the state of being-in-act? And if there is such an Actuality, is this itse...
Actualization
But if this be the significance of potentiality, may we describe it as a Power towards the thing that is to be? Is the Bronze a power towards a statu...
air
Matter exists; Soul exists; and they occupy, so to speak, one place. There is not one place for Matter and another for Soul-Matter, for instance, kep...
All
But why does the existence of the Principle of Good necessarily comport the existence of a Principle of Evil? Is it because the All necessarily compo...
All-Soul
The Third Hypostasis of the Divine-Triad is, then, the All-Soul, or Universal Soul or Soul of The All: it is the eternal emanation and image of the S...
animal
It may be a distasteful notion, this bringing-down of happiness so low as to the animal world – making it over, as then we must, even to the vilest...
animals
And the animals, in what way or degree do they possess the Animate? If there be in them, as the opinion goes, human Souls that have sinned, then the ...
Animate
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 thi...
animate
It might be ventured that memory, no less than sensation, is a function of the Couplement, on the ground that bodily constitution determines our memo...
animated body
But how do we explain likings and aversions? Sorrow, too, and anger and pleasure, desire and fear – are these not changes, affectings, present and ...
Animating-Principle
And the animals, in what way or degree do they possess the Animate? If there be in them, as the opinion goes, human Souls that have sinned, then the ...
Aristotle
"How," he asks, "can these corporeal and visible entities continue eternally unchanged in identity?" - evidently agreeing, in this matter also, with ...
art
What art is there, what method, what discipline to bring us there where we must go? The Term at which we must arrive we may take as agreed: we have e...
ascent
Of these material elements - for example - fire, the keen and swift, cooperates by its upward tendency as earth by its lingering below; for we must n...
Astrologers
Some further considerations will help to clarify this matter: The heavens are observed at the moment of a birth and the individual fate is thence pre...
Authentic
It can scarcely prove to be The Good: The Absolute Good cannot be thought to have taken up its abode with Evil. We can think of it only as something ...
Authentic Being
What will this be? That Kind whose place is below all the patterns, forms, shapes, measurements and limits, that which has no trace of good by any ti...
Authentic Essence
What will this be? That Kind whose place is below all the patterns, forms, shapes, measurements and limits, that which has no trace of good by any ti...
Authentic Good
It can scarcely prove to be The Good: The Absolute Good cannot be thought to have taken up its abode with Evil. We can think of it only as something ...
Authentic Intellect
The life in the Divine Intellect is also an Act: it is the primal light outlamping to itself primarily, its own torch; light-giver and lit at once; t...
authentic man
When you know that you have become this perfect work, when you are self-gathered in the purity of your being, nothing now remaining that can shatter ...
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