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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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5. But if the presiding Spirit and the conditions of life are chosen by the Soul in the overworld, how can anything be left to our independent action here? The answer is that very choice in the over-world is merely an allegorical statement of the Soul's tendency and temperament, a total character which it must express wherever it operates.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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