Thus the All stands as one all-complete Life, whose members, to the measure in which each contains within itself the Highest, effect all that is high and noble: and the entire scheme must be subordinate to its Dirigeant as an army to its general, “following upon Zeus” - it has been said - “as he proceeds towards the INTELLIGIBLE KIND.” Ennead II,3,13
If all this is so, then (the secret of creation is that) the Soul of the All abides in contemplation of the Highest and Best, ceaselessly striving towards the INTELLIGIBLE KIND and towards God: but, thus absorbing and filled full, it overflows - so to speak - and the image it gives forth, its last utterance towards the lower, will be the creative puissance. Ennead II,3,18