' The Good '...

That which soul must quest, that which sheds its light upon Intellectual-Principle,

leaving its mark wherever it falls, surely we need not wonder that it be of power to draw to itself,

calling back from every wandering to rest before it.

From it came all and so there is nothing mightier; all is feeble before it.

Of all things the best, must it not be The Good?

If by The Good we mean the principle most wholly self-sufficing, utterly without need of any other,

what can it be but this?

Before all the rest it was what it was, when evil had yet no place in things.



- Plotinus
--Enneads, VI.7.23