Stainless Shrine, Inward, Divinity
June 22, 2022
Stainless Shrine, Inward, Divinity…..
Stainless Shrine
“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smooths there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.”
Plotinus from The Enneads.
Inward
“When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.”
Plotinus from The Enneads.
Divinity
“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”
Plotinus.
Sounds like Plotinus knew a thing or two.
