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THE DISTINCTION OF REST AND MOVEMENT ALSO INAPPLICABLE.

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Neither could we, below the Supreme, distinguish two intelligences, one at rest, and the other in motion.282 We should have to define the resting of the First, and the movement or utterance283 of the second. The inaction of the one and the action of the other would be equally mysterious. By its being (or, nature), Intelligence is eternally and identically a permanent actualization. To rise to Intelligence and to move around it is the proper function of the soul.

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods, Project Gutenberg eBook #42931

THE ARISTOTELIAN DISTINCTION OF POTENTIALITY AND ACTUALITY IS NOT APPLICABLE TO DIVINITY. AN INTERMEDIARY LOGOS (OR AEON JESUS), ALSO UNACCOUNTABLE.