Categoria: Enéada V, 9 (5)

Of Intelligence, Ideas and Essence. THE SENSUAL MAN, THE MORAL, AND THE SPIRITUAL. 1. From their birth, men exercise their senses, earlier than their intelligence, and they are by necessity forced to direct their attention to sense-objects. Some stop there, and spend their life without progressing further. They consider suffering as evil, and pleasure as…

Tractate 5 Fifth Ennead. Ninth tractate. The intellectual-principle, the ideas, and the authentic existence. 1. All human beings from birth onward live to the realm of sense more than to the Intellectual. Forced of necessity to attend first to the material, some of them elect to abide by that order and, their life throughout, make…