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[Anonymous No.7284075]

>Admiring pursuit of the external is a confession of inferiority; and nothing thus holding itself inferior to things that rise and perish, nothing counting itself less honourable and less enduring than all else it admires could ever form any notion of either the nature or the power of God.

What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.7284103]

If you like the things of the world and chase them, you're saying they're better than you are.

This means you don't respect your own soul, which means you must not know a lot about the soul, or the world of the spirit in general. As long as you chase things out in the world, you'll never understand God.

[Anonymous No.7284108]

>>7284075
Nobody who thinks he's worth less than the material world will ever understand God.

And pursuing the things of the material world is an admission of that feeling of inferiority.

Because if you had the better of two things, why would you chase after the worse? Only if you didn't know you had the better.

[Anonymous No.7284109]

>>7284075
Plotinus is pretty much the final boss of philosophy
Whoever reads and tries to understand the Enneads has my condolences.

(ps the gnostics were objectively right)

[Anonymous No.7284121]

>>7284109
ssh, don't let the demiurge hear you

[Anonymous No.7284174]

>>7284109
>(ps the gnostics were objectively right)
what are their theses ?

[Anonymous No.7284262]

Must one have an in-depth understanding of Plato before Plotinus? Or would a basic understanding suffice?