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Firsts Quotes by Plotinus
- Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not…
- Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself…
- Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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