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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 33

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33. The Circuit does not go by chance but under the Reason-Principle of the living whole; therefore there must be a harmony between cause and caused; there must be some order ranging things to each other's purpose, or in due relation to each other: every several configuration within the Circuit must be accompanied by a change in the position and condition of things subordinate to it, which thus by their varied rhythmic movement make up one total dance-play. In our dance-plays there are outside…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 33

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