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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 17

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17. Perhaps the hate of this school for the corporeal is due to their reading of Plato who inveighs against body as a grave hindrance to Soul and pronounces the corporeal to be characteristically the inferior. Then let them for the moment pass over the corporeal element in the Universe and study all that still remains.