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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 8

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8. What can this other cause be; one standing above those treated of; one that leaves nothing causeless, that preserves sequence and order in the Universe and yet allows ourselves some reality and leaves room for prediction and augury? Soul: we must place at the crest of the world of beings, this other Principle, not merely the Soul of the Universe but, included in it, the Soul of the individual: this, no mean Principle, is needed to be the bond of union in the total of things, not, itself, a…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 8

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