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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTAT...

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8. The light of our world can be allocated because it springs from a corporeal mass of known position, but conceive an immaterial entity, independent of body as being of earlier nature than all body, a nature firmly self-based or, better, without need of base: such a principle, incorporeal, autonomous, having no source for its rising, coming from no place, attached to no material mass, this cannot be allotted part here and part there: that would be to give it both a previous position and a…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTAT...

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