No name to the One (1)

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Chaldean Oracles 9, 9a:
Rightly, then, it is impossible to attribute a name to (the One), as if a name were able to fit it. Thus, that which is beyond all things and can be indicated only by the term “the One” by those who desire to express the inexpressible, not only Plato alone but even the gods have spoken in this way. For the gods themselves give oracular responses as follows:

“For all things which issue from the One and, conversely, go back to the One, are divided, so to speak, intelligibly, into many bodies.”
And (the gods) advise us to put aside the multiplicity in the soul and elevate our perceptive faculty and drive it toward the One:
“And do not keep in your mind the multiform other,” they say, “but extend the perceptive faculty in the soul toward the One.”

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Chaldean Oracles 9
Chaldean Oracles 9a

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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