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

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18. There remains the question whether the body possesses any force of its own- so that, with the incoming of the soul, it lives in some individuality- or whether all it has is this Nature we have been speaking of, the superior principle which enters into relations with it. Certainly the body, container of soul and of nature, cannot even in itself be as a soulless form would be: it cannot even be like air traversed by light; it must be like air storing heat: the body holding animal or vegetive…

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

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