VOLUME III. WORKS OF PLOTINOS PLOTINOS Complete Works In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods; With BIOGRAPHY by PORPHYRY, EUNAPIUS, & SUIDAS, COMMENTARY by PORPHYRY, ILLUSTRATIONS by JAMBLICHUS & AMMONIUS, STUDIES in Sources, Development, Influence; INDEX of Subjects, Thoughts and Words. by KENNETH SYLVAN GUTHRIE, Professor in Extension, University of the South, Sewanee; A.M., Sewanee, and Harvard; Ph.D., Tulane, and Columbia. M.D., Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia. VOL. III Porphyrian Books, 34-45. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE PRESS P. O. Box 42, ALPINE, N.J., U.S.A. Copyright, 1918, by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie. All Rights, including that of Translation, Reserved. Entered at Stationers' Hall, by George Bell and Sons, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, London. SIXTH ENNEAD, BOOK SIX. Of Numbers. MANIFOLDNESS IS DISTANCE FROM UNITY, AND EVIL. 1. Does manifoldness consist in distance from unity? Is infinity this distance carried to the extreme, because it is an innumerable manifoldness? Is then infinity an evil, and are we ourselves evil when we are manifold? (That is probable); or every being becomes manifold when, not being able to remain turned towards itself, it blossoms out; it extends while dividing; and thus losing all unity in its expansion, it becomes manifoldness, because there is nothing that holds its parts mutually united. If, nevertheless, there still remain something that holds its parts mutually united, then, though blossoming out, (the essence) remains, and becomes manifoldness. HOW MANIFOLDNESS IS AN EVIL.