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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 32

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32. If we can trace neither to material agencies [blind elements] nor to any deliberate intention the influences from without which reach to us and to the other forms of life and to the terrestrial in general, what cause satisfactory to reason remains? The secret is: firstly, that this All is one universally comprehensive living being, encircling all the living beings within it, and having a soul, one soul, which extends to all its members in the degree of participant membership held by each…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 32

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