Plotinus

"All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another."

"Hence, as Narcissus, by catching at the shadow, plunged himself in the stream and disappeared, so he who is captivated by beautiful bodies, and does not depart from their embrace, is precipitated, not…"

"It is now time, leaving every object of sense far behind, to contemplate, by a certain ascent, a beauty of a much higher order; a beauty not visible to the corporeal eye, but alone manifest to the bri…"

"Plotinus" by Lloyd P. Gerson, at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"Plotinus" by Edward Moore, at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

"It is by participation of species that we call every sensible object beautiful. Thus, since everything void of form is by nature fitted for its reception, as far as it is destitute of reason and form …"

"When the soul has descended into generation she partakes of evil, and is carried a great way into a state the opposite of her first purity and integrity, to be entirely merged in which, is nothing mor…"

"The Six Enneads translated into English by Stephen MacKenna and B.S. Page"