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Aristotle - As quoted by Plotinus
Identifier
014915
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Aristotle as quoted by Plotinus, sourced by Moshe Idel
Sometimes I became self centred and removed my body and I was as a spiritual substance, without a body. And I saw the beauty and the splendour and I became amazed and astonished. [Then] I knew that I am an active being. When this became certain to me I ascended in my thought from this world to the Divine Cause and I was there as if I were situated within it and united in it and united with it, and I was higher than the entire intellectual world, and I saw myself as if standing within the world of divine intellect. I was as if united within and united with it, as if I were standing in this supreme and divine state.