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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 7

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7. Our investigation may be furthered by enquiring: Whether light finally perishes or simply returns to its source. If it be a thing requiring to be caught and kept, domiciled within a recipient, we might think of it finally passing out of existence: if it be an Act not flowing out and away- but in circuit, with more of it within than is in outward progress from the luminary of which it is the Act- then it will not cease to exist as long as that centre is in being.

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