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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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3. If such be the Nature of Beings and of That which transcends all the realm of Being, Evil cannot have place among Beings or in the Beyond-Being; these are good. There remains, only, if Evil exist at all, that it be situate in the realm of Non-Being, that it be some mode, as it were, of the Non-Being, that it have its seat in something in touch with Non-Being or to a certain degree communicate in Non-Being.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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