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

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7. The Kind, then, with which we are dealing is twofold, the Intellectual against the sensible: better for the soul to dwell in the Intellectual, but, given its proper nature, it is under compulsion to participate in the sense-realm also. There is no grievance in its not being, through and through, the highest; it holds mid-rank among the authentic existences, being of divine station but at the lowest extreme of the Intellectual and skirting the sense-known nature; thus, while it communicates…

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

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