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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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5. This Ever-Being is realized when upon examination of an object I am able to say- or rather, to know- that in its very Nature it is incapable of increment or change; anything that fails by that test is no Ever-Existent or, at least, no Ever-All-Existent. But is perpetuity enough in itself to constitute an Eternal?