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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 12

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12. But if Soul is sinless, how come the expiations? Here surely is a contradiction; on the one side the Soul is above all guilt; on the other, we hear of its sin, its purification, its expiation; it is doomed to the lower world, it passes from body to body.

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