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The Six Enneads
by Plotinus
204 - 270 C.E.


Image of Plotinus

Translation by
Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page


The First Ennead

The First Ennead on one page (163.9Kb)
  1. The Animate and the Man.
  2. On Virtue.
  3. On Dialectic [The Upward Way].
  4. On True Happiness.
  5. Happiness and extension of Time.
  6. Beauty.
  7. On the Primal Good, and Secondary Forms of Good.
  8. On the Nature and Source of Evil.
  9. The Reasoned Dismissal.

The Second Ennead

The Second Ennead on one page (205.9Kb)

  1. On the Kosmos or On the Heavenly System.
  2. The Heavenly Circuit.
  3. Are the Stars Causes.
  4. Matter in it's two Kinds.
  5. On Potentiality and Actuality.
  6. Quality and Form-Idea.
  7. On complete transfusion.
  8. Why distant objects appear small.
  9. Against those who affirm the Creator of the Kosmos and the Kosmos Itself to be Evil.

The Third Ennead

The Third Ennead on one page (293.4Kb)

  1. Fate.
  2. On Providence (1).
  3. On Providence (2).
  4. Our Tutelary Spirit.
  5. On Love.
  6. The impassivity of the Unembodied.
  7. Time and Eternity.
  8. Nature Contemplation and The One.
  9. Detached Considerations.

The Fourth Ennead

The Fourth Ennead on one page (331.9Kb)

  1. On the Essence of the Soul (1).
  2. On the Essence of the Soul (2).
  3. Problems of the Soul (1).
  4. Problems of the Soul (2).
  5. Problems of the Soul (2) [also entitled "On Sight"].
  6. Perception and Memory.
  7. The immortality of the Soul.
  8. The Soul's descent into Body.
  9. All Souls are one?

The Fifth Ennead

The Fifth Ennead on one page (213.4Kb)

  1. The three initial Hypostases.
  2. The origin and order of the Beings. Following on the First.
  3. The Knowing Hypostases and the Transcendent.
  4. How the Secondaries arise from the First: and on the One.
  5. That the Intellectual Beings are not outside the Intellectual-Principle: and on the Nature of the Good.
  6. That the Principle Transcending Being has no intellectual Act. What Being has intellection primally and what Being has it secondarily.
  7. Is there an Ideal Archetype of particular Beings?
  8. On the Intellectual Beauty.
  9. The Intellectual-Principle, the Ideas, and the Authentic Existence.

The Sixth Ennead

The Sixth Ennead on one page (527.7Kb)

  1. On the kinds of Being (1).
  2. On the kinds of Being (2).
  3. On the kinds of Being (3).
  4. On the Integral Omniprescence of the Authentic Existent (1).
  5. On the Integral Omnipresence of the Authentic Existent (2).
  6. On Numbers.
  7. How the multiplicity of the Ideal-Forms came into Being: and upon The Good.
  8. On Free-Will and the Will of The One.
  9. On The Good, or The One.



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