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Number is the unity-and-multiplicity inherent in Being itself, not an abstraction from countable things." }, { "num": 7, "slug": "7-how-the-multiplicity-of-the-ideal-forms-came-into-being", "title": "VI.7 — How the Multiplicity of the Ideal-Forms Came Into Being; and Upon the Good", "words": 18784, "url": "/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-6/7-how-the-multiplicity-of-the-ideal-forms-came-into-being/", "api": "/api/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-6/7-how-the-multiplicity-of-the-ideal-forms-came-into-being.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Why there are many Forms", "blurb": "Long and richly speculative treatise on why Intellect contains many Forms — and on the Good as the goal of all desire. Contains some of Plotinus's most poetic passages on ascent." }, { "num": 8, "slug": "8-on-free-will-and-the-will-of-the-one", "title": "VI.8 — On Free-Will and the Will of the One", "words": 9734, "url": "/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-6/8-on-free-will-and-the-will-of-the-one/", "api": "/api/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-6/8-on-free-will-and-the-will-of-the-one.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The freedom of the First Principle", "blurb": "On the One's freedom — Plotinus's daring claim that the One is causa sui, self-caused, willing its own being. The most theologically charged treatise on divine freedom in late antiquity." }, { "num": 9, "slug": "9-on-the-good-or-the-one", "title": "VI.9 — On the Good, or the One", "words": 6099, "url": "/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-6/9-on-the-good-or-the-one/", "api": "/api/sources/plotinus-enneads/ennead-6/9-on-the-good-or-the-one.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The climactic treatise; the soul's union with the One", "blurb": "The climactic treatise of the Enneads, placed last by Porphyry. On the One as the Good; on the soul's union with the One in mystical contemplation; the famous final sentence — *the flight of the alone to the Alone*." } ] }