THE SUPREME AS THE TREE OF THE UNIVERSE.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
Again, (the Supreme may be compared to) the life that circulates in a great tree, without its principle issuing from the root, where is its seat, but which later divides among the branches. Though spreading everywhere a manifold life, the Principle still dwells in itself exempt from all manifoldness, though being only its origin.197