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

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5. We return to our statement that The First remains intact even when other entities spring from it. In the case of numbers, the unit remains intact while something else produces, and thus number arises in dependence on the unit: much more then does the unit, The One, remain intact in the principle which is before all beings; especially since the entities produced in its likeness, while it thus remains intact, owe their existence to no other, but to its own all-sufficient power.

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

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