Note 183 — FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHT. Of the Nature and Origin of Evils.156
Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie translation
That is, the relative inferiority of beings which, proceeding from each other, become more and more distant from the good; see ii. 5.5; ii. 9.8, 13; v. 1; Philo, Leg. Alleg. ii. p. 74.