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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 28

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28. Now to see what all this reasoning has established: Universally, what approaches as a good is a Form; Matter itself contains this good which is Form: are we to conclude that, if Matter had will, it would desire to be Form unalloyed? No: that would be desiring its own destruction, for the good seeks to subject everything to itself.

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