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

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6. If this be so, how do we explain the teaching that evils can never pass away but "exist of necessity," that "while evil has no place in the divine order, it haunts mortal nature and this place for ever"? Does this mean that heaven is clear of evil, ever moving its orderly way, spinning on the appointed path, no injustice There or any flaw, no wrong done by any power to any other but all true to the settled plan, while injustice and disorder prevail on earth, designated as "the Mortal Kind…

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

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