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

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13. Thus The One is in truth beyond all statement: any affirmation is of a thing; but the all-transcending, resting above even the most august divine Mind, possesses alone of all true being, and is not a thing among things; we can give it no name because that would imply predication: we can but try to indicate, in our own feeble way, something concerning it: when in our perplexity we object, "Then it is without self-perception, without self-consciousness, ignorant of itself"; we must remember…

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

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