But if the blind are able to join in, then the beatific vision seems to be an expansion of consciousness that has nothing to do with the eyeballs. Or the intellect. Plotinus warned that this extraordinary “faculty of vision” which “everyone possesses, but few people ever use” could never be “acquired by calculations” or “constructed out of theorems.”14 True religion, as Parmenides tried to teach Plato long ago from Velia, has nothing to do with logic, reason, or reflective thought.
