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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: first year of the Emperor Gallienus; and he continued to note such questions as occurred to him, for the ten following years, in the last of which he became acquainted with Porphyry, who was at that time in the thirtieth year of his age. He had then composed one-and-twenty books, which were in the hands but of a few: for the edition was difficult to be procured, and was not universally known. Besides, Plotinus was neither hasty nor rash in his publications; but he gave those only to the light, which had been approved by a mature and deliberate judgment. The one-and-twenty books we have just mentioned, after various inscriptions, at length obtained the following titles. On the Beautiful. Ennead I. lib. 6. On the Immortality of the Soul. IV. 7. On Fate. III. 1. On the Essence of the Soul. IV. 1. On Intellect, Ideas, and Being. V. 9. On the Descent of the Soul into Bodies. IV. 8. How things posterior to the First, proceed from the First, and on the One. V. 4. Whether all Souls are one ? IV. 9. On the Good, or the One. VI. 9. On the three Hypostases that rank as the Principles of Things. V. 1. On the Generation and Order of Things posterior to the First. V. 2. On the two Matters i.e. the Intelligible and the Sensible]. II. 4. Various Considerations. III. 9. On the Circular Motion of the Heavens. II. 2. On the Daemon allotted to us. III. 4. On the reasonable Exit from the present Life. I. 9. On Quality. II. 6. Whether there are Ideas of Particulars. V. 7. On the Virtues. I. 2. On Dialectic. I. 3. How the Soul is said to be a medium between an impartible and partible Essence. IV. 2. These one-and-twenty books were finished when Porphyry first became acquainted with Plotinus; and when this great man was fifty-nine years old. During the six ye...