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

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9. This Poros, Possession, then, is the Reason-Principle of all that exists in the Intellectual Realm and in the supreme Intellect; but being more diffused, kneaded out as it were, it must touch Soul, be in Soul, [as the next lower principle]. For, all that lies gathered in the Intellect is native to it: nothing enters from without; but "Poros intoxicated" is some Power deriving satisfaction outside itself: what, then, can we understand by this member of the Supreme filled with Nectar but a…

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

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