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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 16

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16. But if that Principle can never fall to evil and we have given a true account of the soul's entry or presence to body, what are we to say of the periodic Descents and Returns, the punishments, the banishment into animal forms? That teaching we have inherited from those ancient philosophers who have best probed into soul and we must try to show that our own doctrine is accordant with it, or at least not conflicting.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 16

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