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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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5. This Intellectual-Principle, if the term is to convey the truth, must be understood to be not a principle merely potential and not one maturing from unintelligence to intelligence- that would simply send us seeking, once more, a necessary prior- but a principle which is intelligence in actuality and in eternity. Now a principle whose wisdom is not borrowed must derive from itself any intellection it may make; and anything it may possess within itself it can hold only from itself: it follows…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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