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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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3. The Human Soul, next; Everywhere we hear of it as in bitter and miserable durance in body, a victim to troubles and desires and fears and all forms of evil, the body its prison or its tomb, the kosmos its cave or cavern. Now this does not clash with the first theory [that of the impassivity of soul as in the All]; for the descent of the human Soul has not been due to the same causes [as that of the All-Soul.] All that is Intellectual-Principle has its being- whole and all- in the place of…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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