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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 14

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14. Thus it comes about that this kosmos, lit with many lights, gleaming in its souls, receives still further graces, gifts from here and from there, from the gods of the Supreme, and from those other Intellectual-Principles whose nature it is to ensoul. This is probably the secret of the myth in which, after Prometheus had moulded woman, the other gods heaped gifts upon her, Hephaistos "blending the clay with moisture and bestowing the human voice and the form of a goddess"; Aphrodite bringing…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 14

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