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SOUL-LIGHT FORMS ANIMAL NATURE.

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7. The aggregate results from the presence of the soul, not indeed that the soul enters into the aggregate, or constitutes one of its elements. Out of this organized body, and of a kind of light furnished by herself, the soul forms the animal nature, which differs both from soul and body, and to which belongs sensation, as well as all the passions attributed to the animal.296

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods, Project Gutenberg eBook #42933

SENSATION IMPLIES FEELING SOUL. RELATION OF ANIMAL TO HUMAN NATURE.