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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 5

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5. A first point demanding consideration: Bodies- those, for example, of animals and plants- are each a multiplicity founded on colour and shape and magnitude, and on the forms and arrangement of parts: yet all these elements spring from a unity. Now this unity must be either Unity-Absolute or some unity less thorough-going and complete, but necessarily more complete than that which emerges, so to speak, from the body itself; this will be a unity having more claim to reality than the unity…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 5

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