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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE...

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2. Our first observations must be directed to what passes in the Sensible realm for Substance. It is, we shall agree, only by analogy that the nature manifested in bodies is designated as Substance, and by no means because such terms as Substance or Being tally with the notion of bodies in flux; the proper term would be Becoming.