Description Intellect

May 22, 2025

Its [Intellect] blessedness is not acquired; rather, everything is in it eternally, and it is true eternity, which time imitates, moving around it along with Soul, dropping some things and picking up others.

For at the level of Soul, thoughts are always changing; now it thinks of Socrates, now of a horse – always some particular being – whereas Intellect just is everything.

It has, then, all Beings stable in it, and it alone is, and the ‘is’ is always, and the future is nothing to it – for it ‘is’ then, too – nor is here a past for it – for nothing in the intelligible world has passed away – but all Beings are set within it always inasmuch as they are identical and in a way pleased to be in this condition.

~ Enneads 5.1(10)§5.1.4