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

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6. But how comes it that while the All-Soul has produced a kosmos, the soul of the particular has not, though it is of the one ideal Kind and contains, it too, all things in itself? We have indicated that a thing may enter and dwell at the same time in various places; this ought to be explained, and the enquiry would show how an identity resident simultaneously here and there may, in its separate appearances, act or react- or both- after distinct modes; but the matter deserves to be examined in…

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

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