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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE...

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11. Thus the Intellectual-Principle, in the act of knowing the Transcendent, is a manifold. It knows the Transcendent in very essence but, with all its effort to grasp that prior as a pure unity, it goes forth amassing successive impressions, so that, to it, the object becomes multiple: thus in its outgoing to its object it is not [fully realised] Intellectual-Principle; it is an eye that has not yet seen; in its return it is an eye possessed of the multiplicity which it has itself conferred…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE...

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