The Philosophy of Plotinus: The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, 1917-1918, Volume 1

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Longmans, Green, 1918 - 270 pages
 

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Page 212 - From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
Page 232 - This spiritual Love acts not nor can exist Without Imagination, which, in truth, Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And Reason in her most exalted mood.
Page 212 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie — an immensity not possessed...
Page 11 - But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
Page 259 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 3 - It is the Method, or Discipline, that brings with it the power of pronouncing with final truth upon the nature and relation of things— what each is, how it differs from others, what common quality all have, to what Kind each belongs and in what rank each stands in its Kind and whether its Being is Real-Being, and how many Beings there are, and how many non-Beings to be distinguished from Beings.
Page 8 - ... they could be adequately written down and stated to the world, what finer occupation could I have had in life than to write what would be of great service to mankind, and to reveal Nature in the light of day to all men ? But I do not even think the effort to attain this a good thing for...
Page vi - All truth is a shadow except the last. But every truth is substance in its own place, even though it be but a shadow in another place. And the shadow is a true shadow, as the substance is a true substance.
Page 249 - In point of fact we have little ground for speaking of the personality of finite beings; it is an ideal, which, like all that is ideal, belongs unconditionally only to the Infinite, but like all that is good appertains to us only conditionally, and hence imperfectly.
Page 47 - Let us suppose that in modern Europe the faithful had deserted the Christian churches to worship Allah or Brahma, to follow the precepts of Confucius or Buddha, or to adopt the maxims of the Shinto; let us imagine a great confusion of all the races of the world in which Arabian mullahs, Chinese scholars, Japanese bonzes, Tibetan lamas and Hindu pundits...

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