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And I would say that we might be able to act logically, and intellectually, and divinely all at once; and let us spring up enthusiastically toward the ineffable and incomprehensible apprehension of the One. For we too possess, as souls ordered according to the primary causes, images of them, and we partake of the whole soul and the intellectual breadth and the divine unity. And we must awaken those powers of theirs within us toward the perception of the subjects proposed. Or shall we be closer to the One? Are we not to awaken the one of the soul which is in us, as it were an image of the One, according to which the more accurate of the discourses say that enthusiasm occurs? But how could we cause this very One itself and the flower of the soul to shine forth? Only if we first act according to the intellect; for the activity according to the intellect leads the soul toward a calm state and activity. Let the mode of our discourse be such, then: logical, intellectual, enthusiastic; for thus we would grasp the proposed hypothesis appropriately.