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Another note to myself: I think I made a mistake on [7]. The nature of the Soul itself is division, and so it can't be treated as a wholly unified entity—Soul entire is more like a body with parts, except that it can't be divided indefinitely, as individual souls aren't divisible. I have some re-reading to do to be sure, but I think that in the places where Plotinus is referring to the Soul entire, he's aggregating it not as a cosmological entity but rather for the purposes of making logical statements about things above it. (Going through Taylor's translation will help—MacKenna seems to be a little sloppy about things like this.)

There's certainly a "first' or "highest" or "greatest" god, but just because something is "biggest" doesn't mean it is "absolute" in the sense that monotheists make it out to be.