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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 27

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27. On other grounds also, it is indefensible not to have reserved the high place for the true first-principle of things but to have set up in its stead the formless, passive and lifeless, the irrational, dark and indeterminate, and to have made this the source of Being. In this theory God is introduced merely for the sake of appearance: deriving existence from Matter he is a composite, a derivative, or, worse, a mere state of Matter.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 27

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