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Enneads Ἐννεάδες Plotinus / Porphyry

By Plotinus

“Enneads” means groups of 9 and describes how Porphyry organized the editing of his mentor, Plotinus’ teachings. This became a foundation for Neoplatonism and a significant influence on Western and Christian philosophy. Known in the Islamic world as "Sayings of a Wise Old Man,” it also had a powerful impact on Islamic philosophy. Plotinus merged Greek, Persian, and Indian thought into these writings as he taught for 25 years in Rome as “director of conscience” teaching politicians, poets, professional philosophers, bankers, and many upper class women. In the inscrutable spirit of anonymity he refused to tell people anything about his background, ancestry, parents, or even about where he was from.

Quotes from Enneads Ἐννεάδες Plotinus / Porphyry

“Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.”

Chapters: 45. Complete Perfection

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“It is impossible to deny the good of life to any order of living things… Those that deny the happy life to plants are really denying it to all living things.”

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“Looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.”

Chapters: 39. Oneness

Themes: God Indra's Net

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“Never would the eye have perceived the sun if it had not first taken the form of the sun; likewise, every person must make themselves beautiful and divine in order to attain the sight of beauty and divinity.”

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“Once Contemplative Wisdom comes into play, all the virtues may have to yield.”

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“Philosophy is the supremely precious, a journey to the Good, to the Primal-Principal and the Dialectic is the most precious part of philosophy.”

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Themes: Philosophy

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“The self-directed metaphysician discovers the life-germ, understands not just seeming-knowledge but authentic science; and, abandoning all the realms of deceit and falsity, wanders in the ‘Meadows of Truth.”

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“Wisdom has the task of presenting all things as Universals, stripped of matter for treatment by Understanding.”

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