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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 8

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8. As then there is a Life-Form primal- which therefore is the Life-Form Absolute- and there is Intellectual-Principle or Being, Authentic Being, these, we affirm, contain all living things and all Number, and Absolute Justice and Beauty and all of that order; for we ascribe an existence of their own to Absolute Man, Absolute Number, Absolute Justice. It remains to discover, in so far as such knowledge is possible, how these distinct entities come to be and what is the manner of their being.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 8

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