Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 2

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2. Let every soul recall, then, at the outset the truth that soul is the author of all living things, that it has breathed the life into them all, whatever is nourished by earth and sea, all the creatures of the air, the divine stars in the sky; it is the maker of the sun; itself formed and ordered this vast heaven and conducts all that rhythmic motion; and it is a principle distinct from all these to which it gives law and movement and life, and it must of necessity be more honourable than…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 2

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