Intellect is a "one-many", an organized world of intellects, in each of which the whole of intellect is present.
Soul for Plotinus is very much what it was for Plato, the intermediary between the worlds of Intellect and Sense and the representative of the former in the latter.
There may be a valuable lesson here for religious thinkers and religion scholars who believe that their work, regardless of its contemporary importance, is still held at arm's length in the worlds of intellect, scholarship and high culture.
Our world has lost a man of intellect, wisdom, love, generosity, humor, and a strong sense of family.
For many students, deconstruction was a right of passage into the world of rebellious intellect.
The BBC decided he was tainted with a partisanship inappropriate to his old Radio 4 outlet, Start the Week; happily for the rest of us, that launched him into the less party-political world of the intellect.
It is through the grasp of the various planes of being, through ascending in knowledge to the world of the intellect and apprehending what is above it the divine will and the world of the Deity that humans may "escape death" and reach "the source of life".
If this is right, then the "first effect" will be the "world of the intellect" mentioned in other Kindian texts (e.g. the Discourse on the Soul, repeating this phrase from the Theology of Aristotle).
An important function of his methods is to help would-be Knowers redirect their attention from the confused imagery of the senses to the luminous world of the intellect's clear and distinct ideas.
Instead, we should value and pursue things that are stable and enduring, and that cannot be taken from us: these will be the things in the now familiar "world of the intellect".
