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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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10. "Our way of speaking"- for myths, if they are to serve their purpose, must necessarily import time-distinctions into their subject and will often present as separate, Powers which exist in unity but differ in rank and faculty; they will relate the births of the unbegotten and discriminate where all is one substance; the truth is conveyed in the only manner possible, it is left to our good sense to bring all together again. On this principle we have, here, Soul dwelling with the divine…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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