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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 6: Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle. (2)
Nay, we have it clearly and plainly to be seen in ourselves, and in all Things, if we would not be so mad, blind, and self- conceited, and would not be so drawn and led by a School-boy, but did stick close to the Schoolmaster himself, who is the Master of all Masters; for we see indeed that all Things spring out of the eternal Mother, and as she is in her own Birth, so she has generated this World, and so is every Creature also generated. And as that [Mother] is in her springing forth in Multiplication, where every Fountain [or Source] has another Center in it from the Genetrix, and a Separation [or Distinction,] but undivided and not asunder, so also this World is generated out of the eternal Mother, which now is such another Genetrix, and yet is not separated from the eternal Mother, but is come to be in a material Manner, and it has through the Sun attained another Light and Life; which [Light and Life] is not the wise Master himself, but the wise Master (who is God) he keeps that Light and Life, so that it stands and continues in the eternal Matrix, and yet it is not the eternal Wisdom itself.
The Six Enneads
On the Intellectual Beauty (12)
We have told how this vision is to be procured, whether by the mode of separation or in identity: now, seen in either way, what does it give to...