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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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6. All this, however, we may leave to individual judgement: to proceed: This produced reality is an Ideal form- for certainly nothing springing from the Supreme can be less- and it is not a particular form but the form of all, beside which there is no other; it follows that The First must be without form, and, if without form, then it is no Being; Being must have some definition and therefore be limited; but the First cannot be thought of as having definition and limit, for thus it would be not…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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