Let us explain the conditions under which we become conscious of this INTELLECTIVE-ACT. Enneads I,4,10
In sum we may safely gather that while the INTELLECTIVE-ACT may be attended by the Imaging Principle, it is not to be confounded with it. Enneads I,4,10
The Good is that on which all else depends, towards which all Existences aspire as to their source and their need, while Itself is without need, sufficient to Itself, aspiring to no other, the measure and Term of all, giving out from itself the Intellectual-Principle and Existence and Soul and Life and all INTELLECTIVE-ACT. Enneads I,8,2