This All is universal power, of infinite extent and infinite in potency, a god so great that all his parts are infinite. Name any place, and he is al… - Plotinus

To see the supreme which is also the means to the vision; for that which illuminates the Soul id that which is to see.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Every evildoer began by despising the Gods; and one not previously corrupt, taking to this contempt, even though in other respects not wholly bad, becomes an evildoer by the very fact.