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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 4

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4. But, soul reached, why need we look higher; why not make this The First? A main reason is that the Intellectual-Principle is at once something other and something more powerful than Soul and that the more powerful is in the nature of things the prior.