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Plotinus: Enneads. Electronic text edition.

The Enneads, a work from the great philosopher Plotinus, has exerted a considerable influence on Western civilization, including our present time. Plotinus himself was taught by Ammonius Saccas, the "theodidactos", or God-taught philosopher in Alexandria who brought several philosophical systems together in his Neo-Platonic School. Those of this School were known as the "Philalethians" (lovers of the truth); while others named them the "Analogists," on account of 'their method of interpreting all sacred legends, symbolical myths and mysteries, by a rule of analogy or correspondence' as indeed one can find in the writings of Porphyry. In his Enneads he treats of the following topics: First Ennead: Human or ethical topics; Second and Third Enneads: cosmological subjects or physical reality; Fourth Ennead: about the Soul; Fifth Ennead: knowledge and intelligible reality; Sixth Ennead: Being and what is above it, the One or first principle of all. The links in the document are mostly outdated. My main page is at academia.edu My latest book (on Transcendence) also may be helpful to the spiritual seeker. My Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKUnvd5EzItQwmnR1f0CYuA My Face

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