"The knowledge of what is knowable, pure, and simple, that illuminates the soul like a thunderbolt and for this time alone allows it to touch and see. For which reason Plato and Aristotle termed this part of philosophy ‘epoptic’ because they pass by ostensible, heterogeneous, and manifold notions, and leap up towards the primal, the simple, and the immaterial, and when they really touch the pure truth concerning these matters they think that, just as in mystery initiations ( teletê ), they reached the end ( telos ) of philosophy."
Plutarch (quote taken from 'Divine Mania: Alteration of Consciousness in Ancient Greece' by Yulia Ustinova)
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