Six sets of nine treatises on the One, the Intellect, the Soul, and the soul’s ascent — the founding text of Neoplatonism
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Tradition
Greek philosophical mysticism. Plotinus (c. 204–270 CE), edited by Porphyry into six “enneads” (sets of nine).
Translation
Stephen MacKenna, *Plotinus: The Ethical Treatises (the First Ennead) and Porphyry's Life of Plotinus*, vol. I (London: Medici Society / Boston: Charles T. Branford, 1917). Public domain. Selected tractates from Ennead I; see source for complete work.
License
Public domain (pre-1929 English translation). Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.