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THE SUPREME IS THE POTENTIALITY OF ALL THINGS, ABOVE ALL ACTUALIZATION.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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10. (9). This Principle then is the potentiality of all.196 Without it, nothing would exist, not even Intelligence, which is the primary and universal life. Indeed what is above life is the cause of life. The actualization of life, being all things, is not the first Principle; it flows from this Principle as (water) from a spring.

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

THE BEGETTER OF INTELLIGENCE MUST BE SIMPLER THAN IT, AND IS REACHED NOT BY INTELLIGENT REASONING BUT A SIMPLE INTUITION. THE SUPREME AS A SPRING OF WATER.