Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 8

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8. Now: given a light of this degree, remaining in the upper sphere at its appointed station, pure light in purest place, what mode of outflow from it can be conceived possible? Such a Kind is not so constituted as to flow downwards of its own accord; and there exists in those regions no power to force it down.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 8

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