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Psychic and Physical Treatises; comprising the Second and Third Enneads

Plotinus is primarily remembered for his teachings, which were collected by Porphyry into a volume called the Enneads. This work gives Plotinus’s accounts of the religions and cults of his age. He was interested in the occult but only in a detached and speculative way. He was indifferent to traditional paganism but critical of the Gnostic Christian heretics who preached the mystical dualism of the divine, which he regarded as antiphilosophical, un-Greek, and emotional superstition. His own religious beliefs inclined toward the idea that one could achieve a spiritual union with the good (understood as the Platonic idea of a perfect realm of the ideal) through philosophic reflection.

Psychic and Physical Treatises; comprising the Second and Third Enneads, translated from Greek by Stephen Mackenna (Boston: Charles T. Branford, 1918).

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CONTENTS
THE THIRD ENNEAD
FIRST TRACTATE Fate
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SECOND TRACTATE Providence: First Treatise
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THIRD TRACTATE On Providence: Second Treatise
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FOURTH TRACTATE Our Tutelary Spirit
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FIFTH TRACTATE On Love
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SIXTH TRACTATE The Impassivity of the Unembodied
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SEVENTH TRACTATE Time and Eternity
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EIGHTH TRACTATE Nature Contemplation and the One
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NINTH TRACTATE Detached Considerations
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THE SECOND ENNEAD
FIRST TRACTATE On the Kosmos or on the Heavenly System
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SECOND TRACTATE The Heavenly Circuit
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THIRD TRACTATE Are the Stars Causes?
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FOURTH TRACTATE Matter in its Two Kinds
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FIFTH TRACTATE On Potentiality and Actuality
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SIXTH TRACTATE Quality and Form-Idea
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SEVENTH TRACTATE On Complete Transfusion
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EIGHTH TRACTATE Why Distant Objects Appear Small
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NOTE ON THE ORDER OF THE TRACTATES OF THE THIRD AND SECOND ENNEADS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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