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>>21624439
4.1/4.2 On the Essence of the Soul (Part 1 & 2)

The Intellectual sphere has Authentic Existence, Souls, and the IP (Intellectual Principle)

How is the Soul indivisible if it can split up and give souls to the lower realm?

Formed from the undivided essence and the essence divided among bodies

The Soul which knows partition is parted without partibility

4.2

Qualities such as magnitude are a condition to any one mass, but do not consitute it's Essence
- Essence = Real-Being
- Very near to the impartible
- present at every point of the recipient, but indivisible as dwelling in the entire in any point

Essence is present to all mass
Partition occurs in bodies
There is a continuity to the soul which ensures it is one throughout the multiplicity of body

If Soul were impartible or a completely perfect unity (as opposed to being both divisible and indivisible), it could not ensoul body

Theory of Impressions as progressing toward the Leading-Principle (this is a theory purported by critical opponents which Plotinus disputes)
- the Leading-Principle in unintellective objects or things is their unity
- Leading-Principle in composites (soul/body) is the "one-and-many" soul

>>21638751
I'm still here. I'll read ahead if I can. The next week or two I may be in and out because I'm travelling right now. Kind of happy that the old copy of this book I have is going to see some natural beauty after being heavily studied from around 1960-1990 (It came from a university library that closed last year).