Indian Philosophy v2.c26.s17.19

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⁶ Pañcadaśī, ii. 20. Rudolf Otto: The Idea of the Holy, E.T., p. 25. Plato mounts beyond the worlds of being and becoming to the good. Plotinus seeks to apprehend the Absolute as yet undivided between subject and object and so above all diversity. “This absolute is none of the things of which it is the source; its nature is that nothing can be affirmed of it—not existence, not essence, not life—since it is That which transcends all these . . .” “Once you have uttered the ‘Good,’ add no further thought to it; by any addition, and in proportion to that addition, you introduce a deficiency. Do not even say that it has Intellection; you would be dividing it” (Enneads, iii. 8. 10, E.T., McKenna, vol. ii, pp. 134, 135). Clement of Alexandria reaches a point where the Supreme could be recognised not by what it is, but by what it is not.