[305] By remaining in the model, instead of descending here below.
[306] That is, the spiritual germs emanating from the "plerôma."
[307] Plotinos here treats as synonymous "new earth," "reason of the world," "model of the world," and "form of the world;" but Bouillet shows that there is reason to believe he was in error in the matter.
[308] From the plerôma, whose "seeds of election" they were, and which now become to them a foreign country.
[309] Of the aeons, from whom souls, as intelligible beings, had emanated.
[310] As in the famous drama of Sophia and Achamoth.
[311] The unseen place; the transmigrations of Basilides, Valentinus, Carpocrates, and the others.
[312] P. 39. Cary, 15.
[313] Added to Plato by Plotinos.
[314] Plotinos had done so himself (Intelligence, and the intelligible world); Numenius (25) also did so.