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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 19

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19. Stirred to the Supreme by what has been told, a man must strive to possess it directly; then he too will see, though still unable to tell it as he would wish. One seeing That as it really is will lay aside all reasoning upon it and simply state it as the self-existent; such that if it had essence that essence would be subject to it and, so to speak, derived from it; none that has seen would dare to talk of its "happening to be," or indeed be able to utter word.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 19

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