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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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3. But are we to think of this Authentic Being as, itself, present, or does it remain detached, omnipresent in the sense only that powers from it enter everywhere? Under the theory of presence by powers, souls are described as rays; the source remains self-locked and these are flung forth to impinge upon particular living things.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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