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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 13

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13. Those, then, that censure the constitution of the Kosmos do not understand what they are doing or where this audacity leads them. They do not understand that there is a successive order of Primals, Secondaries, Tertiaries and so on continuously to the Ultimates; that nothing is to be blamed for being inferior to the First; that we can but accept, meekly, the constitution of the total, and make our best way towards the Primals, withdrawing from the tragic spectacle, as they see it, of the…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 13

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