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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 12

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12. We have told how this vision is to be procured, whether by the mode of separation or in identity: now, seen in either way, what does it give to report? The vision has been of God in travail of a beautiful offspring, God engendering a universe within himself in a painless labour and- rejoiced in what he has brought into being, proud of his children- keeping all closely by Him, for pleasure He has in his radiance and in theirs.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 12

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