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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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6. Something besides a unity there must be or all would be indiscernibly buried, shapeless within that unbroken whole: none of the real beings [of the Intellectual Kosmos] would exist if that unity remained at halt within itself: the plurality of these beings, offspring of the unity, could not exist without their own nexts taking the outward path; these are the beings holding the rank of souls. In the same way the outgoing process could not end with the souls, their issue stifled: every Kind…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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