#CosmicWisdomGr • Plotinus • on Virtues & Principles of Psyche

❈ Virtues & Principles of the Soul ❈  

❝ Being, is the principle of relation & distinguishability amongst the Ideas.
It is the rational principle which makes them logoi spermatikoi.❞ 

Plotinus developed a complex spiritual cosmology involving three foundational elements: the One, the Intelligence, and the Soul. It is from the productive unity of these three Beings that all existence emanates.

Being is the principle of relation and distinguishability amongst the Ideas.
It is the rational principle which makes them logoi spermatikoi".

Logoi spermatikoi are the rational principles or seeds of all the different Ideas.
They exist within the realm of Being and serve as the templates for the various forms we encounter in our experience.

 ❝ When the body falls into wickedness, and the soul, subject to such things, becomes soft, those which are occupied by disease and wickedness are subject to another sequence and another order. ❞

Plotinus discusses two classes of virtue: the 'civic' virtues and the 'purifying' virtues.
The 'civic' or 'practical' virtues include: prudence, justice, fortitude, rectitude, and moral integrity in applying all the other virtues appropriately.

The 'purifiying' virtues, aka the theoretical ones, are a higher class of virtues, including knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, which 'purify' the Soul, and which enable the Soul to transcend.

According to Plotinus, the Soul attains virtue by devoting itself to the Intellectual Principle.

Wisdom and understanding are attained by contemplation of the Intellectual Principle which is the higher principle of Reality, through which the Soul can be released from the body.

The Proficient Soul is able to ascend to a realm of Intellect which can resolve contradiction. Thus, it has the necessary wisdom to seek the Agathó & find a way to happiness.

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