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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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6. the Intellectual Essence, wholly of the order of Ideal-form, must be taken as impassive has been already established. But Matter also is an incorporeal, though after a mode of its own; we must examine, therefore, how this stands, whether it is passive, as is commonly held, a thing that can be twisted to every shape and Kind, or whether it too must be considered impassive and in what sense and fashion so.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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