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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIRST ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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5. But, it will be objected, if this seeing and frequenting of the darkness is due to the lack of good, the Soul's evil has its source in that very lack; the darkness will be merely a secondary cause- and at once the Principle of Evil is removed from Matter, is made anterior to Matter. No: Evil is not in any and every lack; it is in absolute lack.

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