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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTAT...

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1. Some Existents [Absolute Unity and Intellectual-Principle] remain at rest while their Hypostases, or Expressed-Idea, come into being; but, in our view, the Soul generates by its motion, to which is due the sensitive faculty- that in any of its expression-forms- Nature and all forms of life down to the vegetable order. Even as it is present in human beings the Soul carries its Expression-form [Hypostasis] with it, but is not the dominant since it is not the whole man (humanity including the…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTAT...

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