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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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10. When it takes lot with multiplicity, Being becomes Number by the fact of awakening to manifoldness;- before, it was a preparation, so to speak, of the Beings, their fore-promise, a total of henads offering a stay for what was to be based upon them. Here with us a man will say "I wish I had such and such a quantity of gold"- or "such and such a number of houses." Gold is one thing: the wish is not to bring the numerical quantity into gold but to bring the gold to quantity; the quantity…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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