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

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3. The truth may be resumed in this way: There is a lowest power of the Soul, a nearest to earth, and this is interwoven throughout the entire universe: another phase possesses sensation, while yet another includes the Reason which is concerned with the objects of sensation: this higher phase holds itself to the spheres, poised towards the Above but hovering over the lesser Soul and giving forth to it an effluence which makes it more intensely vital. The lower Soul is moved by the higher which…

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

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