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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTAT...

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1. Anything existing after The First must necessarily arise from that First, whether immediately or as tracing back to it through intervenients; there must be an order of secondaries and tertiaries, in which any second is to be referred to The First, any third to the second. Standing before all things, there must exist a Simplex, differing from all its sequel, self-gathered not inter-blended with the forms that rise from it, and yet able in some mode of its own to be present to those others: it…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTAT...

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