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Ennead VI Books 1 to 5 by Plotinus

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The Power of the Universe: Unity

When light emanates from a body, it is easy to tell when it shines because the location of that body is known. We must therefore say that if something participate in this being, by the power of the universe, it participates in this being entirely without thereby being changed or divided. If therefore the body be by nature inclined to divide itself, then is the incorporeal by nature indivisible. How in fact could one divide that which has no extension? The essential passion of the body as such is to divide itself. As to the being which is united to any body, and to which the body aspires to be united, it must in no manner share the passions of the body

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