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

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7. Consider the universe: we are agreed that its existence and its nature come to it from beyond itself; are we, now, to imagine that its maker first thought it out in detail- the earth, and its necessary situation in the middle; water and, again, its position as lying upon the earth; all the other elements and objects up to the sky in due place and order; living beings with their appropriate forms as we know them, their inner organs and their outer limbs- and that having thus appointed every…

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

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