The soul is free, and cannot be coerced by any means, not even though one should confine it and keep guard over it in some secret prison-house. For w… - Gregory Thaumaturgus

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The soul is free, and cannot be coerced by any means, not even though one should confine it and keep guard over it in some secret prison-house. For wherever the intelligence is, there it is also of its own nature and by the first reason. And if it seems to you to be in a kind of prison-house, it is represented as there to you by a sort of second reason. But for all that, it is by no means precluded from subsisting anywhere according to its own determination.