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Ennead VI Books 1 to 5 by Plotinus

Philosophy Audiobooks

CHAPTER

The Universal Soul Is Everything

There could be no potentiality without being. The universal soul is everywhere entire, including souls split infinitely. If we were to suppose that each particular soul were divided into infinity, the universal soul will no longer be entire. As a result of this division, she will become completely impotent. But it is not easier to conceive of a being without potentiality than a potentiality without a being. For above, among the ideas, the potentiality consists of hypostatic existence, and being, or rather, it is something greater than being.

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