Categoria: Enéada V, 4 (7)

How What is After the First Proceeds Therefrom; of the One. NECESSITY OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE FIRST. 1. Everything that exists after the First is derived therefrom, either directly or mediately, and constitutes a series of different orders such that the second can be traced back to the First, the third to the second,…

Tractate 7 Fifth Ennead. Fourth tractate. How the Secondaries rise from the First: and on the One. 1. Anything existing after The First must necessarily arise from that First, whether immediately or as tracing back to it through intervenients; there must be an order of secondaries and tertiaries, in which any second is to be…