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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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10. Still, do not, I urge you, look for The Good through any of these other things; if you do, you will see not itself but its trace: you must form the idea of that which is to be grasped cleanly standing to itself not in any combination, the unheld in which all have hold: for no other is such, yet one such there must be. Now it is clear that we cannot possess ourselves of the power of this principle in its concentrated fulness: so to do one must be identical with it: but some partial…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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