The Intact Identity...

In this choiring, the soul looks upon the wellspring of Life, wellspring also of Intellect, beginning of Being, fount of Good, root of Soul.

It is not that these are poured out from the Supreme, lessening it as if it were a thing of mass.

At that the emanants would be perishable; but they are eternal; they spring from an eternal principle, which produces them not by its fragmentation but in virtue of its intact identity:

therefore they too hold firm; so long as the sun shines, so long there will be light.


Plotinus
Enneads, VI. 9. 9.