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

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4. We have said that all must be brought back to a unity: this must be an authentic unity, not belonging to the order in which multiplicity is unified by participation in what is truly a One; we need a unity independent of participation, not a combination in which multiplicity holds an equal place: we have exhibited, also, the Intellectual Realm and the Intellectual-Principle as more closely a unity than the rest of things, so that there is nothing closer to The One. Yet even this is not The…

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

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