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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 6

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6. But how and what does the Intellectual-Principle see and, especially, how has it sprung from that which is to become the object of its vision? The mind demands the existence of these Beings, but it is still in trouble over the problem endlessly debated by the most ancient philosophers: from such a unity as we have declared The One to be, how does anything at all come into substantial existence, any multiplicity, dyad, or number?

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 6

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