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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 4

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4. Let us consider, then, the hypothesis of a coalescence. Now if there is a coalescence, the lower is ennobled, the nobler degraded; the body is raised in the scale of being as made participant in life; the Soul, as associated with death and unreason, is brought lower.

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