Note 173 — FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHT. Of the Nature and Origin of Evils.156
Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie translation
See ii. 4.10–12. This idea of irradiation is practically emanationism; and besides Plotinos's interest in orientalism (Porphyry Biography, 3), it harks back to Numenius, fr. 26.3; 27a.10.