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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 12

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12. Possessed of such powers, how does it happen that we do not lay hold of them, but for the most part, let these high activities go idle- some, even, of us never bringing them in any degree to effect? The answer is that all the Divine Beings are unceasingly about their own act, the Intellectual-Principle and its Prior always self-intent; and so, too, the soul maintains its unfailing movement; for not all that passes in the soul is, by that fact, perceptible; we know just as much as impinges…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 12

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