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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 18

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18. The Ideal Principle possessing the Intellection [= Idea, Noesis] of Magnitude- assuming that this Intellection is of such power as not merely to subsist within itself but to be urged outward as it were by the intensity of its life- will necessarily realize itself in a Kind [= Matter] not having its being in the Intellective Principle, not previously possessing the Idea of Magnitude or any trace of that Idea or any other. What then will it produce [in this Matter] by virtue of that power?