Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 1

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1. That the circuit of the stars indicates definite events to come but without being the cause direct of all that happens, has been elsewhere affirmed, and proved by some modicum of argument: but the subject demands more precise and detailed investigation for to take the one view rather than the other is of no small moment. The belief is that the planets in their courses actually produce not merely such conditions as poverty, wealth, health and sickness but even ugliness and beauty and, gravest…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 1

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