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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 38

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38. Whatever springs automatically from the All out of that distinctive life of its own, and, in addition to that self-moving activity, whatever is due to some specific agency- for example, to prayers, simple or taking the form of magic incantations- this entire range of production is to be referred, not to each such single cause, but to the nature of the thing produced [i.e., to a certain natural tendency in the product to exist with its own quality]. All that forwards life or some other…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 38

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