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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 1

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1. What can it be that has brought the souls to forget the father, God, and, though members of the Divine and entirely of that world, to ignore at once themselves and It? The evil that has overtaken them has its source in self-will, in the entry into the sphere of process, and in the primal differentiation with the desire for self ownership.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 1

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