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

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16. We maintain, and it is evident truth, that the Supreme is everywhere and yet nowhere; keeping this constantly in mind let us see how it bears on our present enquiry. If God is nowhere, then not anywhere has He "happened to be"; as also everywhere, He is everywhere in entirety: at once, He is that everywhere and everywise: He is not in the everywhere but is the everywhere as well as the giver to the rest of things of their being in that everywhere.

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

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