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BY ITS POWER, THE ONE IS EVERYWHERE.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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4. How does manifoldness issue from Unity? Unity is everywhere; for there is no place where it is not; therefore it fills everything. By Him exists manifoldness; or rather, it is by Him that all things exist. If the One were only everywhere, He would simply be all things; but, as, besides, He is nowhere, all things exist by Him, because He is everywhere; but simultaneously all things are distinct from Him, because He is nowhere. Why then is Unity not only everywhere, but also nowhere? The reason is, that Unity must be above all things, He must fill everything, and produce everything, without being all that He produces.

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

HOW THE SOUL INCARNATES. THE SOUL RECEIVES HER FORM FROM INTELLIGENCE.