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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 13

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13. For Intellectual-Principle is not a simplex, nor is the soul that proceeds from it: on the contrary things include variety in the degree of their simplicity, that is to say in so far as they are not compounds but Principles and Activities;- the activity of the lowest is simple in the sense of being a fading-out, that of the First as the total of all activity. Intellectual-Principle is moved in a movement unfailingly true to one course, but its unity and identity are not those of the…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 13

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