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THE SOUL IS THE INDIVIDUALITY, AS ITS FORM, AND AS A SKILLED WORKMAN.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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The soul, which is the principal part of man, and which constitutes man himself,35 should bear to the body the relation of form to matter, or of a workman to his tool;36 in both cases the soul is the man himself.

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods, Project Gutenberg eBook #42930

THE BODY IS COMPOSITE, AND THEREFORE PERISHABLE. IF THE SOUL IS INCORPOREAL, WE MUST STUDY INCORPOREALITY.