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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTA...

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3. But it leaves that conjunction; it cannot suffer that unity; it falls in love with its own powers and possessions, and desires to stand apart; it leans outward so to speak: then, it appears to acquire a memory of itself. In this self-memory a distinction is to be made; the memory dealing with the Intellectual Realm upbears the soul, not to fall; the memory of things here bears it downwards to this universe; the intermediate memory dealing with the heavenly sphere holds it there too; and, in…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTA...

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