Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 15

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15. The further question, therefore, is raised whether boundlessness and indetermination are things lodging in something other than themselves as a sort of attribute and whether Privation [or Negation of quality] is also an attribute residing in some separate substratum. Now all that is Number and Reason-Principle is outside of boundlessness: these bestow bound and settlement and order in general upon all else: neither anything that has been brought under order nor any Order-Absolute is needed…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 15

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