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lead to the symmetrical development of the body and strengthen external as well as internal organs. The concentration of mind during exercise makes it pure and strong. The exercise produces maximum of benefit with the minimum loss of time and money.
The book will be found to be extremely useful, and instructive to all those who are interested in physical culture. We congratulate the author for writing this book on a subject which is of vital importance and practical use to the young generation of the present. We hope that his other books also will be equally useful and interesting.
The System of Plotinus by the Editors of the "Shrine of Wisdom' published by the Shrine of Wisdom. Price 3sh. This manual presents a systematic exposition of the Plotinian Religious Mysticism. Those who have neither the time nor the opportunity to study the Enneads themselves may thus have a glimpse of the Plotinian Teachings in a synthetical form, whilst those who desire to go more thoroughly into the various treatises may approach the Enneads. Synthesis has been aimed at rather than Analysis, with the endeavour to reveal the foundation of the Plotinian Philosophy upon the triple rock of the Divine Hopostases and the pathway to the Mysticism of Plotinus in the threefold quest for the Good, the True and the Beautiful.
Plotinus was born in the year 205 A.D., at Lycopolis, in Egypt, and died near Rome in 270 A.D. The exact dates of his birth and death are not known. He early began his search for Truth, but it was not until 28 years of age that he found what he sought when he met the great, but little known, Ammonius Saccas, "the God-taught Philosopher." He became the disciple of Ammonius subsequently performing the same work for his master as Plato had done for Socrates. Plato is the Master Philosopher and Idealist, while Plotinus is the Master of Philosophic Religious Mysticism. Many ideals of Plato are given practical expression and application in the System of Plotinus. The predominant personal characteristics of Plotinus were his honesty, sincereity, indifference to public opinion, gentleness, humility and fiery zeal for the cause of Truth.
He was pre-eminently distinguished for the strength and
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