Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 9

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9. Anaxagoras, again, in his assertion of a Mind pure and unmixed, affirms a simplex First and a sundered One, though writing long ago he failed in precision. Heraclitus, with his sense of bodily forms as things of ceaseless process and passage, knows the One as eternal and intellectual.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 9

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