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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 12

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12. (17) A further consideration is that if every soul is to be held dissoluble the universe must long since have ceased to be: if it is pretended that one kind of soul, our own for example, is mortal, and another, that of the All, let us suppose, is immortal, we demand to know the reason of the difference alleged. Each is a principle of motion, each is self-living, each touches the same sphere by the same tentacles, each has intellection of the celestial order and of the super-celestial, each…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 12

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