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Ennead III.8 [30]: On nature, contemplation and the One

Plotinus

The first part of the great treatise against the Gnostics. It opens with the thesis that "all things aspire to contemplation": nature too contemplates when it produces, and action is a detour of contemplation for those who cannot contemplate. It rises to the One, which lies beyond Intellect.