Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTAT...

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1. We hold that the ordered universe, in its material mass, has existed for ever and will for ever endure: but simply to refer this perdurance to the Will of God, however true an explanation, is utterly inadequate. The elements of this sphere change; the living beings of earth pass away; only the Ideal-form [the species] persists: possibly a similar process obtains in the All.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTAT...

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