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UNITY CANNOT BE DEFINED; WE CAN ONLY REFER TO IT BY OUR FEELINGS OF IT.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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Speaking strictly, we should say that the One is this or that (that is, we should not apply any name to it). We can do no more than turn around it, so to speak, trying to express what we feel (in regard to it); for at times we approach Unity, and at times withdraw from it as a result of our uncertainty about it.

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods, Project Gutenberg eBook #42930

BEING A PRIMARY CAUSE, UNITY IS NOTHING CONTINGENT. WE CANNOT COMPREHEND UNITY, WHICH WE APPROACH ONLY BY A PRESENCE.