Pure potentiality -> Pure actuality
as these levels of being are more viable to us and make it more real, we are moving to a higher level of the self
we're also altering the level of the self, making us more capable of living in that higher level of reality - this helps us engage in the being mode, who we really are, being more integrated. it's [[Anagoge]]
at the height of plotinus system, can't have the one, can only be the one