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The Enneads by Plotinus
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really liked it
bookshelves: think-pink

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Reading Progress

August 13, 2016 – Shelved
August 13, 2016 – Shelved as: to-read
August 14, 2016 – Started Reading
August 14, 2016 –
page 25
3.63% ", and towards it we are ever rising."
August 17, 2016 –
page 50
7.27% "as an infant might feel itself rebuked by a glance of severity."
August 24, 2016 –
page 100
14.53% "then it makes no departure; it simply finds itself free."
August 30, 2016 –
page 150
21.8% "Clay, for example, is matter to the potter"
September 7, 2016 –
page 220
31.98% "the Sage intent upon the sublimest"
September 20, 2016 –
page 344
50.0% "The Good therefore needs no consciousness"
October 3, 2016 –
page 459
66.72% "this is an identity in variety"
October 10, 2016 –
page 500
72.67% "All the need is met by a contact purely intellective. At the moment of touch there is no power whatever to make any affirmation; there is no leisure; reasoning upon the vision is for afterwards. We may know we have had the vision when the Soul has suddenly taken light. This light is from the Supreme and is the Supreme; we may believe in the Presence when, like that other God on the call of a certain man..."
October 20, 2016 –
page 600
87.21% "All the need is met by a contact purely intellective. At the moment of touch there is no power whatever to make any affirmation; there is no leisure; reasoning upon the vision is for afterwards. We may know we have had the vision when the Soul has suddenly taken light. This light is from the Supreme and is the Supreme; we may believe in the Presence when, like that other God on the call of a certain man..."
October 20, 2016 –
page 600
87.21% "he unity exhibited in Being on the one hand approximates to Unity-Absolute and on the other tends to identify itself with Being: Being is a unity in relation to the Absolute, is Being by virtue of its sequence upon that Absolute: it is indeed potentially a plurality, and yet it remains a unity and rejecting division refuses thereby to become a genus."
October 31, 2016 –
page 688
100.0% "he unity exhibited in Being on the one hand approximates to Unity-Absolute and on the other tends to identify itself with Being: Being is a unity in relation to the Absolute, is Being by virtue of its sequence upon that Absolute: it is indeed potentially a plurality, and yet it remains a unity and rejecting division refuses thereby to become a genus."
October 31, 2016 – Shelved as: think-pink
October 31, 2016 – Finished Reading

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