Intellection

Then yet again, the one word Intellection covers two distinct Acts?

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

The main part of the difficulty is that awareness of this Principle comes neither by knowing nor by the Intellection that discovers the Intellectual

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Clearly, as authentic Intellection, it has authentic intellection of the authentically existent, and establishes their existence.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Intellection is not the transcendently venerable thing — neither Intellection in general nor even the Intellection of The Good.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Intellection, then the truest Intellection is a living being; Contemplation and its object constitute a living thing, a Life, two inextricably one.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Next, is this image a real-being, or, as they say, an Intellection?

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

The Being projecting this Act transcends the Act so that Intellection is secondary to the Being in which it resides.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Therefore intellection is a multiple not a unitary and that which does not belong to this order can have no Intellection.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Life, then, is an Intellection and the next form of Life is the next

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

But [it will be objected] if this were a matter of mere thinking we might well admit that the intellectual concept, remaining concept, should take in the unintellectual, but where concept is identical with thing how can the one be an Intellection and the other without intelligence?

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952