"Often I wake up to myself, abandoning my body: foreign to everything else in my own intimacy, I see the most extraordinary beauty imaginable. I am convinced, especially then, that I have a superior destiny, my rapture is the highest level that life can reach, I am united with the divine being and, having arrived at this rapture, I fix myself in him above all beings intelligible. But after this rest in the divine Being, having descended from the Intellect back to reflected thought, I ask myself how I carried out this descent in practice and how the soul was able to enter the body, that soul which, although within a body, is the thing noblest he has shown himself to be."
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Plotinus, Enneads, IV, 8, 1
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