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

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13. The Ineluctable, the Kosmic Law is, thus, rooted in a natural principle under which each several entity is overruled to go, duly and in order, towards that place and Kind to which it characteristically tends, that is towards the image of its primal choice and constitution. In that archetypal world every form of soul is near to the image [the thing in the world of copy] to which its individual constitution inclines it; there is therefore no need of a sender or leader acting at the right…

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

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