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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 4

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4. So it is with the individual souls; the appetite for the divine Intellect urges them to return to their source, but they have, too, a power apt to administration in this lower sphere; they may be compared to the light attached upwards to the sun, but not grudging its presidency to what lies beneath it. In the Intellectual, then, they remain with soul-entire, and are immune from care and trouble; in the heavenly sphere, absorbed in the soul-entire, they are administrators with it just as…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 4

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