{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn629_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn629_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_plotenn_enn629_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/plotenn/enn629.htm","summary":"10. When it takes lot with multiplicity, Being becomes Number by the fact of awakening to manifoldness;- before, it was a preparation, so to speak, of the Beings, their fore-promise, a total of henads offering a stay for what was to be based upon them. Here with us a man will say \"I wish I had such and such a quantity of gold\"- or \"such and such a number of houses.\" Gold is one thing: the wish is not to bring the numerical quantity into gold but to bring the gold to quantity; the quantity\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 10","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":666}