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But even with this, mystical thinking did not come close to the problem of evil: it has not been explained why material forces oppose good and what the human soul should get from the fact that these forces can play into it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"18. 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Er sagte sich: Die menschliche Seele kann bei weiterer Entwicklung im Sinne der Vergeistigung mehr in das Geistige untertauchen und sich allmählich von den Gesetzen des materiellen Daseins losringen. - In diesem sahen Plotin, und mit ihm viele Philosophen, dasjenige, was der Feind des Guten ist; er meinte, soweit das Materielle hineinwirke in die Seele, im gleichen Maße dränge sich das Böse herein, und so sah er das Böse in dem gegen das Geistige feindlich gerichteten Materiellen. 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