02-26-2012, 02:13 AM
"If a man sees himself become one with the One, he has in himself a likeness of the One, and if his passes out of himself, as an image to its archetype, he has reached the end of his journey. And when he comes down from his vision, he can again awaken the virtue that is in him, and seeing himself fitly adorned in every part he can again mount upward through virtue to Spirit and through wisdom to the One itself. Such is the life of gods and of godlike, blessed men, a liberation from all earthly bonds, a life that takes no pleasure in earthly things. A flight from the alone, to the alone." - Plotinus