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Ennead V.8 [31]: On the intelligible beauty

Plotinus

The second part of the great treatise against the Gnostics. Phidias sculpted his Zeus not by copying a sensible model but as Zeus would look if he chose to appear; art imitates the forming principles of nature. It describes the intelligible world as transparent and luminous and praises Egyptian hieroglyphs as signs expressing a non-discursive wisdom.