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Book I Chapter 49 · I.49.65.17
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Γένοιτο δ᾽ ἂν καὶ περὶ τῆς καθάρσεως ἡ αὐτὴ ἀμφισβήτησις, ⟨εἰ⟩ οἱ αὐτοὶ μὲν ἄνδρες καὶ ταύτης ὑπερέχειν φασὶ τὰς ψυχὰς ὅσαι θεοῖς συνέπονται, οἱ δ᾽ ἄλλοι πάλιν οἱ μὲν περιόδους τῆς ψυχῆς περικοσμίους καθάρσεως εἶναι διατάττονται, ὥσπερ τινὲς Πλατωνικοί, οἱ δὲ καὶ τούτων αὐτὴν ὑπερέχουσαν προτάττουσιν, ὥσπερ δὴ λέγει Πλωτῖνος.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 49
p. 151965.17 · Purification and the soul’s cosmic circuits
The same dispute might arise concerning purification, ⟨if⟩ these same men say that souls accompanying the gods stand above purification too, while, among the others, some maintain that the soul’s circuits around the cosmos are circuits of purification, as certain Platonists do, whereas others place the soul above even these circuits, as Plotinus says.1824
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