Select Works of Plotinus · 660 of 752 · tr. Thomas Taylor
Select Works, Section 633 (part 2)
If Unity is necessary to the substantial existence of all that really is- and nothing exists which is not one- Unity must precede Reality and be its author.
It is therefore, an existent Unity, not an existent that develops Unity; considered as Being-with-Unity it would be a manifold, whereas in the pure Unity there is no Being save in so far as Unity attends to producing it.
As regards the word "This," it is nat a bare word; it affirms an indicated existence without using the name, it tells of a certain presence, whether a substance or some other existent; any This must be significant; it is no attitude of the mind applying itself to a non-existent; the This shows a thing present, as much as if we used the strict name of the object.
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Anamnesissoteriology
Platonic recollection: knowledge as the soul's recovery of what it knew before birth, with learning as remembering rather than acquisition.
It describes the concept of Number as being reawakened in the mind by changes in sense things, aligning with Platonic recollection.
All passages →Divine Simplicitytheology
The doctrine that God has no parts, divisions, or composite attributes; pure undivided being.
[auto] The discussion contrasts the undivided Monad with multiplicity and successive numbers.
All passages →Emanation Hierarchycosmology
A chain of divine beings or principles flowing downward from a single transcendent source (the One or the Father), each level less perfect than the one above.
[auto] It describes a generative sequence where Being produces motion, rest, and subsequent numerical forms.
All passages →Monadcosmology
The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.
[auto] The text explicitly debates the existence and nature of the Monad as a primary concept derived from Being.
All passages →Numerical Mysticismtheology
Numbers, proportions, and mathematical relationships as the underlying structure of divine reality.
[auto] The passage centrally investigates the ontological status and origin of Numbers within the Intellectual realm.
All passages →Unity Of Beingtheology
The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.
[auto] The passage posits Being as the first principle from which other members of the realm derive.
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