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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 9

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9. It would not be just, because Providence cannot be a something reducing us to nothingness: to think of Providence as everything, with no other thing in existence, is to annihilate the Universe; such a providence could have no field of action; nothing would exist except the Divine. As things are, the Divine, of course, exists, but has reached forth to something other- not to reduce that to nothingness but to preside over it; thus in the case of Man, for instance, the Divine presides as the…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 9

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