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Porphyry’s concise sentences leading the mind toward the intelligible world.

The Sentences leading to the Intelligibles is Porphyry’s compact distillation of the philosophy of his master Plotinus.

In a series of terse propositions it sets out the relation of soul, intellect, and the One, and the ways of incorporeal being — a clear and influential summary of the Neoplatonic path inward and upward.

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