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From Intellect proceeds the third element, Soul. Here too Plotinus talks of a revolt or falling away, an arrogant desire for independence, which took the form of a craving for metabolism. Soul’s original sin is well
described thus by A. H. Armstrong:

"It is a desire for a life different from that of Intellect. The life of Intellect is a life at rest in eternity, a life of thought in eternal, immediate, and simultaneous possession of all possible objects. So the only way of being different which is left for Soul is to pass from eternal life to a life in which, instead of all things being present at once, one thing comes after another, and there is a succession, a continuous series, of thoughts and actions."

This continuous, restless, succession is time: time is the life of the soul in its transitory passage from one episode of living to the next. Soul is the immanent, controlling element in the universe of nature, just as God was in the Stoic system, but unlike the Stoic God Soul is incorporeal. Intellect was the maker of the universe, like the Demiurge of
the Timaeus, but Soul is intellect’s agent in managing its development. Soul links the intelligible world with the world of the senses, having an inner element that looks upwards to Intellect and an external element that looks
downwards to Nature. Nature is the immanent principle of development in the material world: Soul, looking at it, sees there its own

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Look what happened because of what you did, what it led to! There are Christians out there! The west is in critical condition and you're laughing. You're laughing. European culture, art and philosophy was killed because of what you did.