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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 20

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20. The difficulty will be raised that God would seem to have existed before thus coming into existence; if He makes Himself, then in regard to the self which He makes He is not yet in being and as maker He exists before this Himself thus made. The answer is that we utterly must not speak of Him as made but sheerly as maker; the making must be taken as absolved from all else; no new existence is established; the Act here is not directed to an achievement but is God Himself unalloyed: here is no…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 20

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