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

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8. But it is not, in our view, as an attribute that this freedom is present in the First. In the light of free acts, from which we eliminate the contraries, we recognise There self-determination, self-directed and, failing more suitable terms, we apply to it the lesser terms brought over from lesser things and so tell it as best we may: no words could ever be adequate or even applicable to that from which all else- the noble, the august- is derived.

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

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