THE SUPERIOR PRINCIPLE NOT ALWAYS UTILIZED.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
But is the superior principle not "ours" also? Surely, but only when we are conscious thereof; for we do not always utilize our possessions. This utilization, however, takes place when we direct this middle part of our being towards either the upper or lower worlds, and when we actualize into energies what before was only an (Aristotelian) "potentiality" or a (Stoic) "habit."