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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 7

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7. We must be more explicit: The Intellectual-Principle stands as the image of The One, firstly because there is a certain necessity that the first should have its offspring, carrying onward much of its quality, in other words that there be something in its likeness as the sun's rays tell of the sun. Yet The One is not an Intellectual-Principle; how then does it engender an Intellectual-Principle?

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 7

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