/lit/ - Literature

The tutelary deity chapter was interesting. Not as stimulating as I imagined but revealing nonetheless. The image I get of levels of the soul and each of us as an 'intellectual cosmos' is fascinating.
I know I'm early but next up on love is looking wonderful. I don't know why I've never seen the Enneads but in the "bloomer" meme:
>Does each individual Soul, then, contain within itself such a Love in essence and substantial reality? (ie as the way there is a Heavenly God of Love)

>Since not only the pure All-Soul but also that of the Universe contain such a Love, it would be difficult to explain why our personal Soul should not. It must be so, even, with all that has life.

>This indwelling love is no other than the Spirit which, as we are told, walks with every being, the affection dominant in each several nature. It implants the characteristic desire; the particular Soul, strained towards its own natural objects, brings forth its own Eros, the guiding spirit realizing its worth and the quality of its Being.

>As the All-Soul contains the Universal Love, so must the single Soul be allowed its own single Love: and as closely as the single Soul holds to the All-Soul, never cut off but embraced within it, the two together constituting one principle of life, so the single separate Love holds to the All-Love. Similarly, the individual love keeps with the individual Soul as that other, the great Love, goes with the All-Soul; and the Love within the All permeates it throughout so that the one Love becomes many, showing itself where it chooses at any moment of the Universe, taking definite shape in these its partial phases and revealing itself at its will.