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Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan

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361 Thus identifying the "reasonable soul" with Sophia, and "the soul of growth and generation" with Achamoth.
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364 Or "seminal reasons," ii. 3.13.
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366 As wrote Plato in his second Letter, 2, 312, Cary, 482.
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372 As thought Plato, Laws, x, p. 897, Cviii. 265; Cary, C8, that evil is only negative.
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376 This is, however, extreme, as Clement of Alexandria hands down helpful extracts from Valentinus, Strom. iv.; etc.
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379 In his Phaedo, pp. 66, 67; Cary, 29–32.
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380 That is, according to its receptivity.
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381 As thought Plato in the Timaeus, p. 29; C xi. 110, Cary, 10.
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382 By the soul that gives it form, see i. 6.2.
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385 This was evidently a rebuke to Amelius, for his faithfulness to Numenius; and it is at this time that Amelius left Plotinos.
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386 This may refer to Numenius's views, see fr. 27 b. 10.

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

THE JEALOUS DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL, PSYCHIC AND MATERIAL IS DUE CHIEFLY TO IGNORANCE OF OTHER PEOPLE'S ATTAINMENTS. Transcriber's Notes