The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.784, Delphi Classics
