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THE LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSLATIONS. PLOTINUS: PSYCHIC
& PHYSICAL TREATISES, VOLUME II.

Do ċum glóirе Dé & onóra na h-Éireann,
i n’Doṁnaċ-Droc Ḋaile-Áṫa-Cliaṫ ḋom,
Stíofán mac-Enna. Nodlaig 1916.

LOTINUS PSYCHIC AND PHYSICAL TREATISES; COMPRISING THE SECOND AND THIRD ENNEADS, TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK BY STEPHEN MACKENNA

PHILIP LEE WARNER, PUBLISHER TO THE MEDICI SOCIETY, LIMITED 7 GRAFTON ST. LONDON, W. 1. 1921

Of this Edition 1000 copies have
been printed on pure rag paper

Printed in Great Britain

CONTENTS

The Books Of The Third Ennead
		Page
I.	Fate	1
II.	Providence: First Treatise	11
III.	On Providence: Second Treatise	36
IV.	Our Tutelary Spirit	46
V.	On Love	53
VI.	The Impassivity of the Unembodied	67
VII.	Time and Eternity	96
VIII.	Nature Contemplation and the One	119
IX.	Detached Considerations	136

The Books Of The Second Ennead
I.	On The Kosmos or on the Heavenly System	143
II.	The Heavenly Circuit	154
III.	Are The Stars Causes?	159
IV.	Matter in its Two Kinds	178
V.	On Potentiality and Actuality	196
VI.	Quality and Form-Idea	203
VII.	On Complete Transfusion	208
VIII.	Why Distant Objects Appear Small	212
IX.	Against Those that Affirm the Creator of the Kosmos and the Kosmos Itself to be Evil: [Generally Quoted as "Against the Gnostics"]	215

	Note on the Order of the Tractates of the Third and Second Enneads	245

	Acknowledgements	246

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