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Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 14

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14. To the argument touching relation we have an answer surely legitimate: The Unity is not of a nature to lose its own manner of being only because something else stands in a state which it does not itself share; to stray from its unity it must itself suffer division into duality or the still wider plurality. If by division the one identical mass can become a duality without loss of quantity, clearly the unity it possessed and by this destructive division lost was something distinct.

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