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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 9

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9. (14) Over against that body, stands the principle which is self-caused, which is all that neither enters into being nor passes away, the principle whose dissolution would mean the end of all things never to be restored if once this had ceased to be, the sustaining principle of things individually, and of this kosmos, which owes its maintenance and its ordered system to the soul. This is the starting point of motion and becomes the leader and provider of motion to all else: it moves by its…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 9

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