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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 11

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11. Now, in the first place, if the Soul has not actually come down but has illuminated the darkness, how can it truly be said to have declined? The outflow from it of something in the nature of light does not justify the assertion of its decline; for that, it must make an actual movement towards the object lying in the lower realm and illuminate it by contact.

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