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VOLUME II.
WORKS OF PLOTINOS.
In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods;
With
BIOGRAPHY by Porphyry, Eunapius, & Suidas,
COMMENTARY by Porphyry,
ILLUSTRATIONS by Jamblichus & Ammonius,
STUDIES in Sources, Development, Influence;
INDEX of Subjects, Thoughts and Words.
by
Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie,
Professor in Extension, University of the South, Sewanee;
A.M., Sewanee, and Harvard; Ph.D., Tulane, and Columbia.
M.D., Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia.
Vol. II
Amelio-Porphyrian Books, 22–33.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE PRESS
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Copyright, 1918, by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie.
All Rights, including that of Translation, Reserved.
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1. Is it because the body of the universe is sogreat that the Soul is everywhere present in the universe,though being naturally divisible in (human)bodies? Or it is by herself, that she is everywherepresent? In the latter case, she has not been drawnaway everywhere by the body, but the body found hereverywhere in existence before it; thus, in whateverplace it may be, it found the Soul present before ititself was part of the universe, and the total body ofthe universe was located in the Soul that existedalready.
But if the Soul had such an extension before thebody approached her, if she already filled all space,how can she have no magnitude? Besides, how couldshe have been present in the universe when the latterdid not yet exist? Last, being considered indivisibleand non-extended, is she everywhere present withouthaving any magnitude? If the answer be that she extendedherself throughout the body of the universewithout herself being corporeal, the question is not yet...