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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 5

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5. When they tell us that a certain cold star is more benevolent to us in proportion as it is further away, they clearly make its harmful influence depend upon the coldness of its nature; and yet it ought to be beneficent to us when it is in the opposed Zodiacal figures. When the cold planet, we are told, is in opposition to the cold, both become meanacing: but the natural effect would be a compromise.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 5

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