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

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3. We have to ask, that is, how Matter, this entity of ceaseless flux constituting the physical mass of the universe, could serve towards the immortality of the Kosmos. And our answer is "Because the flux is not outgoing": where there is motion within but not outwards and the total remains unchanged, there is neither growth nor decline, and thus the Kosmos never ages.

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

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