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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 17

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17. Or consider it another way: We hold the universe, with its content entire, to be as all would be if the design of the maker had so willed it, elaborating it with purpose and prevision by reasonings amounting to a Providence. All is always so and all is always so reproduced: therefore the reason-principles of things must lie always within the producing powers in a still more perfect form; these beings of the divine realm must therefore be previous to Providence and to preference; all that…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 17

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