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Sacred Texts: The Classics

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

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9. In answer: It must, first, be noted that there are a variety of modes in which an object may be said to be present to another or to exist in another. There is a "presence" which acts by changing the object- for good or for ill- as we see in the case of bodies, especially where there is life.