/lit/ - Literature

But, to return to the point, those who love beautiful bodies, but not
for sexual reasons, love them because they are beautiful and there are
also those who have the love – which is called mixed – for women in
order to perpetuate the race, but if it is love for other than women they
are making a mistake.

contemplate something you find beautiful, really gaze at it with all your soul

>evil is bad
ishiggydiggy

>>15085366
how can we make distinctions if that requires something differentiating and different to differentiate, which doesn't exist?

>>14931054
>>14931048
>>14931041
Therefore, if Intelligence be life, which is the penetration of all things, if it possess all things distinctly, without confusion—for otherwise546 it would possess them in an imperfect and incomplete manner—it must necessarily proceed from a superior Principle which, instead of being in motion, is the principle of motion (by which Intelligence runs through all things), of life, of intelligence, and of all things. The Principle of all things could not be all things, it is only their origin. Itself is neither all things, nor any particular thing, because it begets everything; neither is it a multitude, for it is the principle of multitude. Indeed that which begets is always simpler than that which is begotten. Therefore if this principle beget Intelligence, it necessarily is simpler than Intelligence. On the theory that it is both one and all, we have an alternative, that it is all things because it is all things at once, or that it is everything individually. On the one hand, if it be all things at once, it will be posterior to all things; if on the contrary it be prior to all things, it will be different from all things. For if the One co-existed with all things, the One would not be a principle; but the One must be a principle, and must exist anteriorly to all things, if all things are to originate from it. On the other hand, if we say that the One is each particular thing, it will thereby be identical with every particular thing; later it will be all things at once, without being able to discern anything. Thus the One is none of these particular things, being prior to all things

>>14889218
>the dialectic
>the
and what the fuck would this be?

yes
same with stoics
"fuck the stoics" - Plotinus (a direct quote)

remember to put Theosophy in the trash where it belongs