Where is it Stored? Worlds in Collision: Plato, Plotinus, Pirsig and the Personhood of the Creator
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The Source of Multiplicity of Being
The one cannot strictly speaking be referred to as a source or a cause since these terms imply movement or activity and the one being totally self-sufficient. So has no need of acting in a creative capacity yet platinus still maintains that the one somehow emanates or radiates existence. This is accomplished because the one effortlessly overflows and its excess begets another than itself. In turning toward itself the one sees. It is this seeing that constitutes the intelligence. Therefore, since the one accomplishes the generation or emanation of multiplicity or being by simply persisting in its state of eternal self-presence and impassivity, it cannot be properly called the first principle.
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