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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 1

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1. It is suggested that multiplicity is a falling away from The Unity, infinity being the complete departure, an innumerable multiplicity, and that this is why unlimit is an evil and we evil at the stage of multiplicity. A thing, in fact, becomes a manifold when, unable to remain self-centred, it flows outward and by that dissipation takes extension: utterly losing unity it becomes a manifold since there is nothing to bind part to part; when, with all this outflowing, it becomes something…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 1

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