TRANSITION FROM SENSE BEAUTY TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
So much then for sense-beauties which, descending on matter like images and shadows, beautify it and thereby compel our admiration. 4. Now we shall leave the senses in their lower sphere, and we shall rise to the contemplation of the beauties of a superior order, of which the senses have no intuition, but which the soul perceives and expresses.