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stages may be exhibited thus : — (1) (The) 0(ne), B(eing) ; 



I.e., 4 ^ ^^^^ perpetually. 



Also, since The One and Being differ from each other, but 

 ^ the difference is not owing to The One's existence as The One. 

 I nor to Being's existence as Being, that which makes them differ 

 H must be a third thing, different from both of them. Thus, there 

 ^ are three things, each of which is one, viz., The One, Being, and 

 ^ the Third. Now, since The One and Being are two, i.e., twice 

 CD one, is it not necessary "* for twice to be ? And, since there are 

 two and twice, is it not necessary that there should be twice 

 two ? Similarly, since there are three things, that there should 

 3 be three and thrice and thrice three ? And, since there are 

 Q three and twice, and two and thrice, is it not necessary that 

 ^ there should be thrice two and twice three ? Hence there 

 1^ would be the evenly even, the oddly odd, the oddly even, and 

 ^ the evenly odd. If, then, this is the case, do you think that any 

 I number is left that is not necessarily there ? If, then, One exists, 

 ^ it is necessary for Number to exist likewise. But if Number 

 ^ exist, the Many would exist. As all existing things are parts of 

 ^ Being, very many, therefore, are its parts. What, then ! Is 

 ^ there any one of these which is a part of Being and yet is not 

 one part ? It must be a certain one thing (since it cannot 

 possibly be nothing). The One, therefore, is present to all and 

 each part of Being, deficient in neither a less or a greater part, 

 or in anything else. The One, then, is divided into parts equal 

 in number to those of Being ; and neither is Being wanting to 

 The One nor The One to Being, but these two are always equalized 

 through all things— The Onef is in The Many. The One in 

 itself is One only, but when distributed by Being is Many, — 

 The Many are in The One.{ 



* Parmeni(ie3 is speaker. 



t Oneness is a property of Being. If anything is, it is one and not 

 many. Omne ens est unum. 



X I.e., in The One as existing. The On?; Being. The One, as One abso- 

 hite and simple, has no parts. 



