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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTAT...

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8. To ask why the Soul has created the Kosmos, is to ask why there is a Soul and why a Creator creates. The question, also, implies a beginning in the eternal and, further, represents creation as the act of a changeful Being who turns from this to that.