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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 15

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15. Lovable, very love, the Supreme is also self-love in that He is lovely no otherwise than from Himself and in Himself. Self-presence can hold only in the identity of associated with associating; since, in the Supreme, associated and associating are one, seeker and sought one the sought serving as Hypostasis and substrate of the seeker- once more God's being and his seeking are identical: once more, then, the Supreme is the self-producing, sovereign of Himself, not happening to be as some…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 15

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