To increase the Primals by making the SUPREME MIND engender the Reason-Principle, and this again engender in the Soul a distinct power to act as mediator between Soul and the SUPREME MIND, this is to deny intellection to the Soul, which would no longer derive its Reason from the Intellectual-Principle but from an intermediate: the Soul then would possess not the Reason-Principle but an image of it: the Soul could not know the Intellectual-Principle; it could have no intellection. Ennead II,9,1