Categoria: Enéada VI, 6 (34)

Tractate 34 Sixth Ennead. Sixth tractate. On numbers. 1. It is suggested that multiplicity is a falling away from The Unity, infinity being the complete departure, an innumerable multiplicity, and that this is why unlimit is an evil and we evil at the stage of multiplicity. A thing, in fact, becomes a manifold when, unable…

Of Numbers. MANIFOLDNESS IS DISTANCE FROM UNITY, AND EVIL. 1. Does manifoldness consist in distance from unity? Is infinity this distance carried to the extreme, because it is an innumerable manifoldness? Is then infinity an evil, and are we ourselves evil when we are manifold? (That is probable); or every being becomes manifold when, not…