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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 2

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2. It may be suggested that, while in the unities of the partial order the essence and the unity are distinct, yet in collective existence, in Real Being, they are identical, so that when we have grasped Being we hold unity; Real Being would coincide with Unity. Thus, taking the Intellectual-Principle as Essential Being, that principle and the Unity Absolute would be at once Primal Being and Pure Unity, purveying, accordingly, to the rest of things something of Being and something, in…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 2

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