Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 / In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods

by Plotinus

INTELLIGENCE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE LAST DEGREE OF EXISTENCE.

Intelligence, indeed, could not be (the last degree of existence). It was necessarily actualization of a double nature, both within itself, and for other beings.[334] It was inevitable that it should be followed by other beings, for only the most impotent being would fail to produce something that should proceed from it,[335] while (it is granted that) the intelligible possesses a wonderful power[336]; wherefore, it could not help creating.