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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 16

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16. But even there we are not to remain always, in that beauty of the multiple; we must make haste yet higher, above this heaven of ours and even that; leaving all else aside we ask in awe "Who produced that realm and how?" Everything There is a single Idea in an individual impression and, informed by The Good, possesses the universal good transcendent over all. Each possessing that Being above, possesses also the total Living-Form in virtue of that transcendent life, possesses, no doubt, much…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 16

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