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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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5. Those to whom existence comes about by chance and automatic action and is held together by material forces have drifted far from God and from the concept of unity; we are not here addressing them but only such as accept another nature than body and have some conception of soul. Soul must be sounded to the depths, understood as an emanation from Intellectual-Principle and as holding its value by a Reason-Principle thence infused.