EXCEPT THE FIRST, ALL THINGS ARE CAUSED.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
Speaking of eternal things, the first cannot be derived from other causes, just because they are first. Things dependent from the first, however, may indeed thence derive their being. To each thing we should also attribute the resultant action; for a thing's being is constituted by its displayed energy.