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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 12

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12. We are brought thus to the conception of a Natural-Principle- Time- a certain expanse [a quantitative phase] of the Life of the Soul, a principle moving forward by smooth and uniform changes following silently upon each other- a Principle, then, whose Act is sequent. But let us conceive this power of the Soul to turn back and withdraw from the life-course which it now maintains, from the continuous and unending activity of an ever-existent soul not self-contained or self-intent but…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 12

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