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Plotinus - Being in an ecstasy, tranquil and alone with God, he enjoyed an unbreakable calm
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021663
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
PLOTINUS Quoted E.U: M., p. 372.
Then the soul neither sees, nor distinguishes by seeing, nor imagines that there are two things; but becomes as it were another thing, ceases to be itself and belong to itself. It belongs to God and is one with Him like two concentric circles: concurring they are One; but when they separate they are two . . . Since in this conjunction with Deity there were not two things, but the perceiver was one with the thing perceived, if a man could preserve the memory of what he was when he mingled with the Divine, he would have within himself an image of God-. . .
For then nothing stirred within him, neither anger, nor desire, nor even reason, nor a certain intellectual perception, nor, in short, was he himself moved, if we may assert this; but,-being in an ecstasy, tranquil and alone with God, he enjoyed an unbreakable calm.