- THE FIRST ENNEAD
- FIRST TRACTATE...THE ANIMATE AND THE MAN. (13 Sections)
- SECOND TRACTATE...ON VIRTUE. (7 Sections)
- THIRD TRACTATE...ON DIALECTIC [THE UPWARD WAY]. (6 Sections)
- FOURTH TRACTATE...ON TRUE HAPPINESS. (16 Sections)
- FIFTH TRACTATE...HAPPINESS AND EXTENSION OF TIME. (10 Sections)
- SIXTH TRACTATE...BEAUTY. (9 Sections)
- SEVENTH TRACTATE...ON THE PRIMAL GOOD AND SECONDARY FORMS OF GOOD..[OTHERWISE,"ON HAPPINESS"]. (3 Sections)
- EIGHTH TRACTATE...ON THE NATURE AND SOURCE OF EVIL. (12 Sections)
- NINTH TRACTATE..."THE REASONED DISMISSAL". (1 Section)
- THE SECOND ENNEAD
- FIRST TRACTATE...ON THE KOSMOS OR ON THE HEAVENLY SYSTEM. (8 Sections
- SECOND TRACTATE...THE HEAVENLY CIRCUIT. (3 sections)
- THIRD TRACTATE...ARE THE STARS CAUSES? (18 Sections)
- FOURTH TRACTATE...MATTER IN ITS TWO KINDS. (16 Sections)
- FIFTH TRACTATE...ON POTENTIALITY AND ACTUALITY. (5 Sections)
- SIXTH TRACTATE...QUALITY AND FORM-IDEA. (3 Sections)
- SEVENTH TRACTATE...ON COMPLETE TRANSFUSION. (3 Sections)
- EIGHTH TRACTATE...WHY DISTANT OBJECTS APPEAR SMALL. (2 Sections)
- NINTH TRACTATE...AGAINST THOSE THAT AFFIRM THE CREATOR OF THE KOSMOS AND THE KOSMOS ITSELF TO BE EVIL: [GENERALLY QUOTED AS "AGAINST THE GNOSTICS"]. (18 Sections)
- THE THIRD ENNEAD
- FIRST TRACTATE...FATE. (10 Sections)
- SECOND TRACTATE...ON PROVIDENCE(1). (18 Sections)
- THIRD TRACTATE...ON PROVIDENCE(2). (7 Sections)
- FOURTH TRACTATE...OUR TUTELARY SPIRIT. (6 Sections)
- FIFTH TRACTATE...ON LOVE.(10 Sections)
- SIXTH TRACTATE...THE IMPASSIVITY OF THE UNEMBODIED. (19 Sections)
- SEVENTH TRACTATE...TIME AND ETERNITY. (13 Sections)
- EIGHTH TRACTATE...NATURE CONTEMPLATION AND THE ONE. (10 Sections)
- NINTH TRACTATE...DETACHED CONSIDERATIONS. (3 Sections)
- THE FOURTH ENNEAD
- FIRST TRACTATE...ON THE ESSENCE OF THE SOUL(1). (1 Section)
- SECOND TRACTATE...ON THE ESSENCE OF THE SOUL(2). (2 Sections)
- THIRD TRACTATE...PROBLEMS OF THE SOUL(1). (32 Sections)
- FOURTH TRACTATE...PROBLEMS OF THE SOUL(2). (45 Sections)
- FIFTH TRACTATE...PROBLEMS OF THE SOUL(3). [ALSO ENTITLED "ON SIGHT"]. (8 Sections)
- SIXTH TRACTATE...PERCEPTION AND MEMORY. (3 Sections)
- SEVENTH TRACTATE...THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. (15 Sections)
- EIGHTH TRACTATE...THE SOUL'S DESCENT INTO BODY. (8 Sections)
- NINTH TRACTATE...ARE ALL SOULS ONE?. (5 Sections)
- THE FIFTH ENNEAD
- FIRST TRACTATE...THE THREE INITIAL HYPOSTASES. (12 Sections)
- SECOND TRACTATE...THE ORIGIN AND ORDER OF THE BEINGS. FOLLOWING ON THE FIRST. (2 Sections)
- THIRD TRACTATE...THE KNOWING HYPOSTASES AND THE TRANSCENDENT. (17 Sections)
- FOURTH TRACTATE...HOW THE SECONDARIES RISE FROM THE FIRST: AND ON THE ONE. (2 Sections)
- FIFTH TRACTATE...THAT THE INTELLECTUAL BEINGS ARE NOT OUTSIDE THE INTELLECTUAL-PRINCIPLE: AND ON THE NATURE OF THE GOOD. (13 Sections)
- SIXTH TRACTATE...THAT THE PRINCIPLE TRANSCENDING BEING HAS NO INTELLECTUAL ACT. WHAT BEING HAS INTELLECTION PRIMALLY AND WHAT BEING HAS IT SECONDARILY. (6 Sections)
- SEVENTH TRACTATE...IS THERE AN IDEAL ARCHETYPE OF PARTICULAR BEINGS? (3 Sections)
- EIGHTH TRACTATE...ON THE INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY. (13 Sections)
- NINTH TRACTATE...THE INTELLECTUAL-PRINCIPLE, THE IDEAS, AND THE AUTHENTIC EXISTENCE. (14 Sections)
- THE SIXTH ENNEAD
- FIRST TRACTATE...ON THE KINDS OF BEING(1). (30 Sections)
- SECOND TRACTATE...ON THE KINDS OF BEING(2). (22 Sections)
- THIRD TRACTATE...ON THE KINDS OF BEING(3). (28 Sections)
- FOURTH TRACTATE...ON THE INTEGRAL OMNIPRESENCE OF THE AUTHENTIC EXISTENT(1). (16 Sections)
- FIFTH TRACTATE...ON THE INTEGRAL OMNIPRESENCE OF THE AUTHENTIC EXISTENT(2). (12 Sections)
- SIXTH TRACTATE...ON NUMBERS. (18 Sections)
- SEVENTH TRACTATE...HOW THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE IDEAL-FORMS CAME INTO BEING: AND UPON THE GOOD. (42 Sections)
- EIGHTH TRACTATE...ON FREE-WILL AND THE WILL OF THE ONE. (21 Sections)
- NINTH TRACTATE...ON THE GOOD, OR THE ONE. (11 Sections)
A Web-Based Bibliography on the emergence of early Christian cosmology
"In the fourth century a.d. the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, Arabia and Persia were peopled by a race of men....
They sought a way to God that was uncharted and freely chosen, not inherited from others who had mapped it out beforehand. They sought a God whom they alone could find, not one who was 'given' in a set stereotyped form by somebody else."
...Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert