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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 7

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7. It remains to notice the theory of the one Causing-Principle alleged to interweave everything with everything else, to make things into a chain, to determine the nature and condition of each phenomenon- a Principle which, acting through seminal Reason-Forms- Logoi Spermatikoi- elaborates all that exists and happens. The doctrine is close to that which makes the Soul of the Universe the source and cause of all condition and of all movement whether without or- supposing that we are allowed as…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 7

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