metaousia Plotino

....................... Plotinus the order of reality consists of three primary, vertically graded realms or hypostases: the One (to hen) or Good (to agathon), Intellect (nous) and World-Soul (psyche).  

The One/Good is the first cause, primal existent, source and goal of all things and the central axis upon which Plotinus' overall worldview revolves around.  

The One is a God-beyond-God, transcending all predications of being, number5, essence6, existence7, name8, form, attribute, thought and limitation; a complete and absolute self-contained unity-in-itself. It is the Supreme Reality and Being-beyond-being (metaousia). The One is identified as such so as to deny all multiplicity of.....