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Sacred Texts: The Classics

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

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6. We may now consider the question whether fire is the sole element existing in that celestial realm and whether there is any outgoing thence with the consequent need of renewal. Timaeus pronounced the material frame of the All to consist primarily of earth and fire for visibility, earth for solidity- and deduced that the stars must be mainly composed of fire, but not solely since there is no doubt they are solid.