The soul creates living beings not by merging into body but by giving forth, without any change in itself, images or likenesses of itself like one face caught by many mirrors.

- #Plotinus, ' #Enneads' I, 1

In the arts, reasoning occurs when the artisans are in perplexity, but when there is no difficulty, the art dominates and does its work.

- #Plotinus, ‘ #Enneads’ 4.3.18.5-7

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All contraries coalesce.

- #Plotinus, ‘ #Enneads’ 3.3

A tranquil garden scene with moss-covered rocks, green foliage, and a calm pond with an orange koi fish near the bottom. Centered text reads: “On the contrary, immaterial things come into existence by merely being thought. So then contemplate pure Intelligence, instead of seeking it with your bodily eyes, fix on it your interior gaze.” — Plotinus. The Humanism Church logo appears in the lower left. The text “humanism.church” appears in the lower right.

The interior world of our contemplative thoughts is real. We can confront notions and concepts in ways exclusive to contemplation. #Philosophy #Plotinus #Enneads #Humanism #HumanismChurch

Sense-perception is our angel, but Nous is our king. But we are kings, too, whenever we are in accord with Nous.

- #Plotinus, ‘ #Enneads’ 5.3.3.45f

The real magic is the Love and the Strife which is in the Totality.

- #Plotinus, ‘ #Enneads’ 4.4

We must close our eyes and invoke a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

- #Plotinus, ' #Enneads' I.6.8

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Everything teems with signs. To be wise is to know one thing by another.

– #Plotinus, ‘ #Enneads’ II.3 §7

We find ourselves in #aporia, in agony over how to speak. We speak about the unsayable.

- #Plotinus, ' #Enneads' 1.6.8

All teems with symbol; wise are the ones who in any one thing can read another, a process familiar to us all in not a few examples of everyday experience.

- #Plotinus, ‘ #Enneads’ 2.3.7

Many things are attracted and enchanted without anyone casting a spell. The real magic is the Love and the Strife which is in the Totality.

- #Plotinus, ‘ #Enneads’ 4.4

Not to be a good man, but to become a god–that is the aim.

- #Plotinus, ‘ #Enneads’ 1.2.4, 7

Many things are attracted and enchanted without anyone casting a spell. The real magic is the Love and the Strife which is in the Totality.

- #Plotinus, ‘ #Enneads’ 4.4

No one who is self-directed is subject to enchantment; who is one, where that which they contemplate is themself, reason undeluded, but make what they ought and make their own life and work.

- #Plotinus, ' #Enneads' IV.4.44.1-5

Contemplation alone remains incapable of enchantment because no one who is self-directed is subject to enchantment.

- #Plotinus, ' #Enneads' IV.4.44.1-5

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οὐ γὰρ δὴ τὸ εἰπεῖν "βλέπε πρὸς θεόν" προὔργου τι ἐργάζεται, ἐὰν μὴ πῶς καὶ βλέψῃ διδάξῃ

It does no good at all to say 'Look to god,' unless one also teaches how one is to look.

- #Plotinus, ' #Enneads’ 2.9.15.32-34

In the arts, reasoning occurs when the artisans are in perplexity, but when there is no difficulty, the art dominates and does its work.

- #Plotinus, ‘ #Enneads’ 4.3.18.5-7

Not to be a good man, but to become a god–this is the aim.

- #Plotinus, ' #Enneads,' 1.2.4, 7

All contraries coalesce.

- #Plotinus, ‘ #Enneads’ 3.3