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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 42

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42. It follows that, for the purposes which have induced this discussion, the stars have no need of memory or of any sense of petitions addressed to them; they give no such voluntary attention to prayers as some have thought: it is sufficient that, in virtue simply of the nature of parts and of parts within a whole, something proceeds from them whether in answer to prayer or without prayer. We have the analogy of many powers- as in some one living organism- which, independently of plan or as…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 42

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