Couplement

Form is not an attribute of Matter hence, is not predicable of Matter it is simply a constituent of the Couplement.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

It may be claimed as a common element in Matter, Form and the Couplement that they are all substrates.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

It might be doubted whether that recollection, that memory, really belongs to the highest soul and not rather to another, a dimmer, or even to the Couplement, the Living-Being.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

No. Nor because they involve a Couplement of Matter and Form.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

And if to that dimmer soul, when and how has it come to be present; if to the Couplement, again when and how?

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

We may be told that the living-being is a Couplement in the sense of something entirely distinct formed from the two elements [so that it might have memory though neither soul nor body had it].

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

And in the case of matters learned [and not merely felt, as corporeal experiences], how can we think of the Couplement of soul and body as the remembering principle?

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Couplement — which has been supposed, similarly to be the seat of sensation — then by what mode it is present, and how we are to define the Couplement; finally whether sensation and intellectual acts may be ascribed to one and the same agent, or imply two distinct principles.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

The truth is, however, that the “Substance” of our enquiry may be apprehended in directly opposite ways: it may be determined by one of the properties we have been discussing, by more than one, by all at once, according as they answer to the notions of Matter, Form and the Couplement.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Now if sensations of the active order depend upon the Couplement of soul and body, sensation must be of that double nature.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952