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>Thus the One Origin produces contiguous to itself many origins, many simplicities, and many goodnesses. For all of the beings, which are differentiated from one another and are pluralised by their own proper differentia, are referred back each to their own single origin. (For instance, all beautiful things, whether in intellects, souls or bodies, are referred back to one fountain of beauty. Likewise for the many symmetrical things and the many true things.) And all the origins, insofar as they are origins and fountains and goodnesses, are in a way of the same nature as the First Origin, in the degree appropriate to their level of descent. Just as the One Origin stands to all beings, so too each origin stands to the plurality contained by its particularity. For each plurality distinguished by some differentia cannot but stretch up towards its proper origin, which illuminates the oneness in all of it with respect to this same form. The one leads every plurality, and every particularity shared by many things comes to the many from one. So all of the partial origins are situated in the Whole and are contained by it, not dimensionally or spatially, but as the parts in a whole, or the plurality in the one, or number in the monad. For it is all things before all things, and around the One Origin the many origins are pluralised, and in the One Goodness the many goodnesses take their foundation. And this is not just an origin like each of the other origins (one of them being the origin of beauty, another of truth, a third of symmetry, or something else). Rather, it is simply Origin – not the origin simply of beings, but rather the Origin of origins. For this quality of being an origin, just like the rest, must not take its origin from a plurality, but instead must be brought to a head in a single monad, the Origin of origins.