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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE...

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4. The main part of the difficulty is that awareness of this Principle comes neither by knowing nor by the Intellection that discovers the Intellectual Beings but by a presence overpassing all knowledge. In knowing, soul or mind abandons its unity; it cannot remain a simplex: knowing is taking account of things; that accounting is multiple; the mind, thus plunging into number and multiplicity, departs from unity.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE...

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