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Ennead VI Books 1 to 5 by Plotinus

Philosophy Audiobooks

CHAPTER

The Universal Essence

The universal essence does not reveal itself so long as one remains with the rest it does not approach you to make you enjoy its presence. When you borrow something from non essence you cease being universal but if you abandon non essence you will be increasing yourself. The supreme divinity that all the cities all the earth and all the heavens turn for the universe subsists by him. In him also do all real essences derive their existence, says Homer.

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