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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 In Chronological Order,...

THE SOUL IS SAID TO BE IN THE BODY BECAUSE THE BODY ALONE IS VISIBLE.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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All men say that the soul is in the body, however, because the soul is not visible, while the body is. Observing the body, and judging that it is animated because it moves and feels, we say that it has a soul, and we are thereby led to suppose that the soul is in the body. But if we could see and feel the soul, and if we could realize that she surrounds the whole body by the life she possesses, and that she extends around it equally on all sides till the extremities, we would say that the soul is in no way in the body, but that on the contrary the accessory is within its principle, the contained within the container, what flows within the immovable.

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods, Project Gutenberg eBook #42931

NOR WILL THE SOUL BE IN THE BODY AS FORM IN MATTER. THIS LEAVES THE QUESTION OF THE MANNER OF THE SOUL'S PRESENCE.