THERE IS A NATURAL LAW WHICH DIRECTS THE SOUL.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
8. When the soul applies herself to carry out her proper function217—for the soul effects everything, as far as she plays the part of a principle—she follows the straight road;218 when she loses her way219 the divine justice subjugates her to the physical order which reigns in the universe,220 unless the soul succeed in liberating herself. The divine justice221 reigns ever, because the universe is directed by the order and power of the dominating principle (the universal Soul).222 To this is joined the co-operation of the planets which are important parts of the heaven, either by embellishing it, or by serving as signs. Now they serve as signs for all things that occur in the sense-world. As to their potency, they should be credited only with what they effect indisputably.