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

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2. To resume: there is from the first principle to ultimate an outgoing in which unfailingly each principle retains its own seat while its offshoot takes another rank, a lower, though on the other hand every being is in identity with its prior as long as it holds that contact. In the case of soul entering some vegetal form, what is there is one phase, the more rebellious and less intellectual, outgone to that extreme; in a soul entering an animal, the faculty of sensation has been dominant and…

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

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