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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 9

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9. It follows that in the cases specified above- agent, knowledge and the rest- the relation must be considered as in actual operation, and the Act and the Reason-Principle in the Act must be assumed to be real: in all other cases there will be simply participation in an Ideal-Form, in a Reason-Principle. If Reality implied embodiment, we should indeed be forced to deny Reality to these conditions called relative; if however we accord the pre-eminent place to the unembodied and to the…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 9

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