Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 8

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8. This is the explanation of Plato's Triplicity, in the passage where he names as the Primals the Beings gathered about the King of All, and establishes a Secondary containing the Secondaries, and a Third containing the Tertiaries. He teaches, also, that there is an author of the Cause, that is of the Intellectual-Principle, which to him is the Creator who made the Soul, as he tells us, in the famous mixing bowl.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 8

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