BY ITS POWER, THE ONE IS EVERYWHERE.

4. How does manifoldness issue from Unity? Unity is everywhere; for

there is no place where it is not; therefore it fills everything.

By Him exists manifoldness; or rather, it is by Him that all things

exist. If the One were only everywhere, He would simply be all things;

but, as, besides, He is nowhere, all things exist by Him, because He

is everywhere; but simultaneously all things are distinct from Him,

because He is nowhere. Why then is Unity not only everywhere, but also

nowhere? The reason is, that Unity must be above all things, He must

fill everything, and produce everything, without being all that He

produces.

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