THE UNIVERSAL SOUL MAY NOT BE JUDGED BY THE HUMAN STANDARD.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
7. Elsewhere we have demonstrated322 that this world never began, and will never end; and that it must last as long as the intelligible entities. We have also shown,323 and that earlier than these (Gnostics), that the soul's intercourse with the body is not advantageous to her. But to judge the universal Soul according to ours is to resemble a man who would blame the totality of a well governed city by an examination limited to the workers in earth or metal.