لأنه ليس في الواحد شيءٌ البتّة، صدرت عنه كلُّ الأشياء.

“It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.”Plotinus — The Ethical Treatises: Being the Treatises of the First Ennead with Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, and the Preller-Ritter Extracts Forming a Conspectus of the Plotinian System (1917)