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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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3. Thus we have here one identical Principle, the Intellect, which is the universe of authentic beings, the Truth: as such it is a great god or, better, not a god among gods but the Godhead entire. It is a god, a secondary god manifesting before there is any vision of that other, the Supreme which rests over all, enthroned in transcendence upon that splendid pediment, the Nature following close upon it.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 3

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