Categoria: Tratado 9 (VI,9)

Resumo e tradução em português 1. It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings. This is equally true of things whose existence is primal and of all that are in any degree to be numbered among beings. What could exist at all except as one thing? Deprived of unity, a thing ceases to…

Resumo e tradução em português 2. It may be suggested that, while in the unities of the partial order the essence and the unity are distinct, yet in collective existence, in Real Being, they are identical, so that when we have grasped Being we hold unity; Real Being would coincide with Unity. Thus, taking the…

Resumo e tradução em português 3. What then must The Unity be, what nature is left for it? No wonder that to state it is not easy; even Being and Form are not easy, though we have a way, an approach through the Ideas. The soul or mind reaching towards the formless finds itself incompetent…

Resumo e tradução em português 4. The main part of the difficulty is that awareness of this Principle comes neither by knowing nor by the Intellection that discovers the Intellectual Beings but by a presence overpassing all knowledge. In knowing, soul or mind abandons its unity; it cannot remain a simplex: knowing is taking account…

Resumo e tradução em espanhol 5. Those to whom existence comes about by chance and automatic action and is held together by material forces have drifted far from God and from the concept of unity; we are not here addressing them but only such as accept another nature than body and have some conception of…

Resumo e tradução em português 6. In what sense, then, do we assert this Unity, and how is it to be adjusted to our mental processes? Its oneness must not be entitled to that of monad and point: for these the mind abstracts extension and numerical quantity and rests upon the very minutest possible, ending…

Resumo e tradução em português 8. Every soul that knows its history is aware, also, that its movement, unthwarted, is not that of an outgoing line; its natural course may be likened to that in which a circle turns not upon some external but on its own centre, the point to which it owes its…

Resumo e tradução em português 9. In this choiring, the soul looks upon the wellspring of Life, wellspring also of Intellect, beginning of Being, fount of Good, root of Soul. It is not that these are poured out from the Supreme lessening it as if it were a thing of mass. At that the emanants…

Resumo e tradução em português 10. But how comes the soul not to keep that ground? Because it has not yet escaped wholly: but there will be the time of vision unbroken, the self hindered no longer by any hindrance of body. Not that those hindrances beset that in us which has veritably seen; it…

Resumo e tradução em português 11. This is the purport of that rule of our Mysteries: Nothing Divulged to the Uninitiate: the Supreme is not to be made a common story, the holy things may not be uncovered to the stranger, to any that has not himself attained to see. There were not two; beholder…

THE SOUL MUST BE STRIPPED OF FORM TO BE ILLUMINATED BY PRIMARY NATURE. 7. Your mind remains in uncertainty because the divinity is none of these things (that you know). Apply it first to these things, and later fix it on the divinity. While doing so. do not let yourself be distracted by anything exterior…

SIXTH ENNEAD, BOOK NINE. Of the Good and the One. UNITY NECESSARY TO EXISTENCE OF ALL BEINGS. 1. All beings, both primary, as well as those who are so called on any pretext soever, are beings only because of their unity. What, indeed would they be without it ? Deprived of their unity, they would…

2. Deve-se dizer, então, que, para cada uma das coisas cuja unidade não é senão aquela de suas partes, sua realidade não é idêntica à unidade, enquanto, no caso disto que é totalmente e de sua realidade, a realidade, isto que é e a unidade são idênticas, de sorte que, se se descobre isto que…

2. Deve-se dizer, então, que, para cada uma das coisas cuja unidade não é senão aquela de suas partes, sua realidade não é idêntica à unidade, enquanto, no caso disto que é totalmente e de sua realidade, a realidade, isto que é e a unidade são idênticas, de sorte que, se se descobre isto que…

4. A aporia nasce sobretudo porque nossa apreensão do Uno não se faz nem por meio da ciência nem por meio da intelecção, como é o caso para os outros inteligíveis, mas que ela resulta de uma presença que é superior à ciência. Ora, a alma faz a experiência de sua falta de unidade, e…