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Just because one can do an occult exegesis for a text doesn't necessarily mean there is substance there. This is a very common problem with this type of analysis, and has been for as long as we've been at it.

You can demonstrably shake the Enneads out of Plato's dialogues by sketching in their negative spaces, even though Plato himself would probably have many pointed questions about the neoplatonists' work.

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