The Third Hypostasis of the Divinity - the All-Soul, the Universal Life-Principle - includes, and is, all the souls: the human soul is, therefore, the All-Soul: but it is the All-Soul set into touch with the lower: it is the All-Soul particularized for the space, at least, of the mortal life of man.
This particularization is necessarily a limitation: it sets bounds: it comports a provisory application to this rather than that; we may, therefore, discern phases of the All-Soul in us. These (…)
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MacKenna - Plotinus
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Soul
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MacKenna-Plotinus: body
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroPleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat? Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending. Enneads I,1,
Now what could bring fear to a nature thus unreceptive of all the outer? Fear demands feeling. Nor is there place (…) -
MacKenna-Plotinus: unity
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAll this accomplished, it gives up its touring of the realm of sense and settles down in the Intellectual Kosmos and there plies its own peculiar Act: it has abandoned all the realm of deceit and falsity, and pastures the Soul in the "Meadows of Truth": it employs the Platonic division to the discernment of the Ideal-Forms, of the Authentic-Existence and of the First-Kinds [or Categories of Being]: it establishes, in the light of Intellection, the unity there is in all that issues from these (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Matter
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAs in Man before the organization or shaping by the All-Soul, so everywhere else there is Matter, always the same: there is a certain tendency to think of Matter as being ‘material’, e.g. in man as flesh or clay, in the world at large as some sort of powdery beginning or residue of things: this misconception must be carefully guarded out. ‘Matter’, says Jules Simon, ‘is rather a demand of thought than a reality of existence’: this is perhaps to state the case rashly, but it is certainly (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Princípio-Intelectual
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThus it is not easy, without knowledge and the training of habit, to quiver with any very real rapture over the notion of becoming ‘wholly identified with the Intellectual-Principle’; when it is understood and at each moment deeply realized that ‘The Intellectual-Principle’ is the highest accessible ‘Person’ of the Godhead, is very God, is the Supreme Wisdom immanent within the human soul and yet ineffably superior to all the Universe besides, then perhaps we may feel the great call to the (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: principle
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroAnd this very examining principle, which investigates and decides in these matters, must be brought to light. Enneads I,1,
And the principle that reasons out these matters? Is it We or the Soul? We, but by the Soul. Enneads I,1,
Thus much to show that the principle that we attain Likeness by virtue in no way involves the existence of virtue in the Supreme. But we have not merely to make a formal demonstration: we must persuade as well as demonstrate. Enneads I,2,
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MacKenna-Plotinus: power
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroIt will hold itself above all passions and affections. Necessary pleasures and all the activity of the senses it will employ only for medicament and assuagement lest its work be impeded. Pain it may combat, but, failing the cure, it will bear meekly and ease it by refusing assent to it. All passionate action it will check: the suppression will be complete if that be possible, but at worst the Soul will never itself take fire but will keep the involuntary and uncontrolled outside its (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Intelectual
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroThis also we possess as the summit of our being. And we have It either as common to all or as our own immediate possession: or again we may possess It in both degrees, that is in common, since It is indivisible – one, everywhere and always Its entire self – and severally in that each personality possesses It entire in the First-Soul [i.e. in the Intellectual as distinguished from the lower phase of the Soul]. Enneads I,1,
The first degree is the conversion from the lower life; the second – (…) -
MacKenna-Plotinus: Good
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroIs it any explanation to say that desire is vested in a Faculty-of-desire and anger in the Irascible-Faculty and, collectively, that all tendency is seated in the Appetitive-Faculty? Such a statement of the facts does not help towards making the affections common to the Couplement; they might still be seated either in the Soul alone or in the body alone. On the one hand if the appetite is to be stirred, as in the carnal passion, there must be a heating of the blood and the bile, a (…)
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MacKenna-Plotinus: Princípio
1º de fevereiro, por Cardoso de CastroNo; from the organized body and something else, let us say a light, which the Soul gives forth from itself, it forms a distinct Principle, the Animate; and in this Principle are vested Sense-Perception and all the other experiences found to belong to the Animate. Enneads I,1,
But does not Likeness by way of Virtue imply Likeness to some being that has Virtue? To what Divine Being, then, would our Likeness be? To the Being – must we not think? – in Which, above all, such excellence seems to (…)