But how is this to be accomplished? “Cut away everything.” The experience of “ecstasy” (standing outside one’s own body) happened frequently to Plotinus.
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But truth is not the only merit that a metaphysic can possess. It may have beauty, and this is certainly to be found in Plotinus; there are passages that remind one of the later cantos of Dante’s Para-diso, and of almost nothing else in literature.
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