Indefiniteness

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Secondly, what must a thing be to take Indefiniteness as an attribute?

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

So that Matter here [as only an image of Indefiniteness] would be less indefinite?

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

But this argument seems to make no difference between the indefinite object and Indefiniteness-essential.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

But what difference can there be between phase and phase of Indefiniteness?

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Now Matter is a thing that is brought under order — like all that shares its nature by participation or by possessing the same principle — therefore, necessarily, Matter is The Undelimited and not merely the recipient of a nonessential quality of Indefiniteness entering as an attribute.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Indefiniteness is the greater in the less ordered object; the less deep in good, the deeper in evil.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Then again Indefiniteness entering as an attribute into the definite must cease to be indefinite: but Indefiniteness has not entered as an attribute into Matter: that is, Matter is essentially Indefiniteness.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Indefiniteness: in this lower Sphere where there is less Being, where there is a refusal of the Authentic, and an adoption of the Image-Kind,

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952