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Ennead VI Books 1 to 5 by Plotinus

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Unity as a Genus

Unity is not a number and nevertheless it would become a number in becoming a genus. As to the other genera none of them is one without being manifold. Much less could unity be predicated of the secondary genera of which each is quite manifold. No genus considered in its totality is unitary so that if unity were a genus it would merely thereby cease being unity. Mere recurrence of something in several essences is no proof it is a genus whether in respect to the Essences in which it occurs or to others.

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