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or mimicry (mimesis) of something "higher and intelligible" (Enneads VI.I) which was the "truer part of genuine Being". This distrust of material world extended to the human body, including his own; it is reported by Porphyry that at one point he refused to have his portrait painted, presumably because he regarded bodily appearance as an inferior representation. Likewise, Plotinus never discussed his ancestry, childhood, or his place or date of birth. From all accounts his personal

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