====== harmony ======

**III. 2. 2**
//(Armstrong Selection and Translation from the Enneads)//

(From the unity of Noûs proceeds the conflicting diversity of the visible universe, in which the principle of unity manifests itself by bringing about a harmony of contending opposites.)

It is like the logos in a seed, in which all the parts are together in identity; no one part fights another or differs from it or gets in its way; then it acquires mass and different parts come to be in different places, and they get in each other's way, and one consumes another: in the same way this universe has arisen and developed in separation of parts from one Noûs and the Logos which proceeds from it; and of necessity some parts develop friendly and kind, others hostile and inimical; willingly or unwillingly they injure each other, and they bring about each other's birth by their own destruction: yet all the same parts like this, in their action on and experience of each other, bring into being a single concord, as each utters its own notes; and the Logos over them makes a concord, a single order for the whole.