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Salient question, and I suspect this is where Iamblichus's apparent divergence from Plotinus may come into sharper relief. It's my belief that we can't but help pay attention to the teeming things, particularly when we are in the "descent mode" (procession), where things appear as multiplicity and division (Dis-integration...we're all naturally polytheists, that is). It's only when we begin to follow that thread back to its source, and take the first few steps on the journey of return, that the underlying Unity, Being and The Good, begins to reveal Itself.

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