An idea from The Enneads

Evil has no shape of its own. It is a lack, the way dark is a lack of light, and the deepest lack is raw, shapeless matter: “The evil of Matter precedes the weakness, the vice; it is Primal Evil.” Later Platonists, Proclus among them, refused to call matter evil.

From The Enneads by Plotinus

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