Sacred Texts: The Classics

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

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6. We take it, then, that the Intellectual-Principle is the authentic existences and contains them all- not as in a place but as possessing itself and being one thing with this its content. All are one there and yet are distinct: similarly the mind holds many branches and items of knowledge simultaneously, yet none of them merged into any other, each acting its own part at call quite independently, every conception coming out from the inner total and working singly.

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

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