THE DISTINCTION OF REST AND MOVEMENT ALSO INAPPLICABLE.

Neither could we, below the Supreme, distinguish two intelligences, one

at rest, and the other in motion.[282] We should have to define the

resting of the First, and the movement or utterance[283] of the second.

The inaction of the one and the action of the other would be equally

mysterious. By its being (or, nature), Intelligence is eternally and

identically a permanent actualization. To rise to Intelligence and to

move around it is the proper function of the soul.

Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods · 第 349 / 381 题