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Podcast: Poems of Annihilation

Episode: In Jesting in this Podcast we attain to contemplation

Description: Contemplation from The Essential Plotinus translated by Elmer O’Brien Enneads III, 8 30 “all beings are striving after contemplation” “as do all who jest, in jesting we contemplate” “one jests because one wants to contemplate” meditate “the wise man” “contemplates himself” “he finds all things within himself” mystical classic

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