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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 13

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13. The Spheral Circuit, then, performed in Time, indicates it: but when we come to Time itself there is no question of its being "within" something else: it must be primary, a thing "within itself." It is that in which all the rest happens, in which all movement and rest exist smoothly and under order; something following a definite order is necessary to exhibit it and to make it a subject of knowledge- though not to produce it- it is known by order whether in rest or in motion; in motion…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 13

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