Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 1

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1. Those enquiring whence Evil enters into beings, or rather into a certain order of beings, would be making the best beginning if they established, first of all, what precisely Evil is, what constitutes its Nature. At once we should know whence it comes, where it has its native seat and where it is present merely as an accident; and there would be no further question as to whether it has Authentic-Existence.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 1

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