It remains to decide whether only what is known in sense exists There or whether, on the contrary, as Absolute-Man differs from individual man, so there is in the Supreme an ABSOLUTE-SOUL differing from Soul and an Absolute-Intellect differing from Intellectual-Principle. Enneads V,9,13
It must be stated at the outset that we cannot take all that is here to be image of archetype, or Soul to be an image of ABSOLUTE-SOUL: one soul, doubtless, ranks higher than another, but here too, though perhaps not as identified with this realm, is the ABSOLUTE-SOUL. Enneads V,9,13
And before the particular Soul there is another Soul, a universal, and, before that, an ABSOLUTE-SOUL, which is the Life existing in the Intellectual-Principle before Soul came to be and therefore rightly called (as the Life in the Divine) the ABSOLUTE-SOUL. Enneads V,9,14