The escape, we read, is not a matter of place, but of acquiring virtue, of disengaging the self from the body; this is the escape from Matter. Plato explains somewhere how a man frees himself and how he remains bound; and the phrase "to live among the gods" means to live among the Intelligible-Existents, for these are the Immortals. Enneads I,8,7
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Intelligible-Existents
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Intelligibles
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThe faculty of perception in the Soul cannot act by the immediate grasping of sensible objects, but only by the discerning of impressions printed upon the Animate by sensation: these impressions are already Intelligibles while the outer sensation is a mere phantom of the other [of that in the Soul] which is nearer to Authentic-Existence as being an impassive reading of Ideal-Forms. Enneads I,1,7
The first degree is the conversion from the lower life; the second - held by those that have (…) -
MacKenna-Plotinus: Uno Princípio
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThe born lover, to whose degree the musician also may attain - and then either come to a stand or pass beyond - has a certain memory of beauty but, severed from it now, he no longer comprehends it: spellbound by visible loveliness he clings amazed about that. His lesson must be to fall down no longer in bewildered delight before some, one embodied form; he must be led, under a system of mental discipline, to beauty everywhere and made to discern the One Principle underlying all, a Principle (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Ideal Principle
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThe Ideal Principle possessing the Intellection [= Idea, Noesis] of Magnitude - assuming that this Intellection is of such power as not merely to subsist within itself but to be urged outward as it were by the intensity of its life - will necessarily realize itself in a Kind [= Matter] not having its being in the Intellective Principle, not previously possessing the Idea of Magnitude or any trace of that Idea or any other. Enneads III,6,18
The [Universal] Soul - containing the Ideal (…) -
MacKenna-Plotinus: Principle of all
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThe Intellectual-Principle on the other hand was never merely the Principle of an inviolable unity; it was a universal as well and, being so, was the Intellectual-Principle of all things. Being, thus, all things and the Principle of all, it must essentially include this part of itself [this element-of-plurality] which is universal and is all things: otherwise, it contains a part which is not Intellectual-Principle: it will be a juxtaposition of non-Intellectuals, a huddled heap waiting to be (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Princípio do Todo
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroPrinciple of all
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MacKenna-Plotinus: First Principle
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroSoul, then, in the same way, is intent upon a task of its own; alike in its direct course and in its divagation it is the cause of all by its possession of the Thought of the First Principle: thus a Law of Justice goes with all that exists in the Universe which, otherwise, would be dissolved, and is perdurable because the entire fabric is guided as much by the orderliness as by the power of the controlling force. And in this order the stars, as being no minor members of the heavenly system, (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Princípio do Bem
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroBut why does the existence of the Principle of Good necessarily comport the existence of a Principle of Evil? Is it because the All necessarily comports the existence of Matter? Yes: for necessarily this All is made up of contraries: it could not exist if Matter did not. The Nature of this Kosmos is, therefore, a blend; it is blended from the Intellectual-Principle and Necessity: what comes into it from God is good; evil is from the Ancient Kind which, we read, is the underlying Matter not (…)