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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 6

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6. It may seem reasonable to lay down as a law that when any powers are contained by a recipient, every action or state expressive of them must be the action or state of that recipient, they themselves remaining unaffected as merely furnishing efficiency. But if this were so, then, since the Animate is the recipient of the Causing-Principle [i.e., the Soul] which brings life to the Couplement, this Cause must itself remain unaffected, all the experiences and expressive activities of the life…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 6

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