Even in the administration of the Universe there is no ground for such attack, for it affords manifest proof of the greatness of the INTELLECTUAL KIND. Enneads II,9,8
What definition are we to give to Eternity? Can it be identified with the (divine or) Intellectual Substance itself? This would be like identifying Time with the Universe of Heavens and Earth – an opinion, it is true, which appears to have had its adherents. No doubt we conceive, we know, Eternity as something most august; most august, too, is the INTELLECTUAL KIND; and there is no possibility of saying that the one is more majestic than the other, since no such degrees can be asserted in the Above-World; there is therefore a certain excuse for the identification – all the more since the Intellectual Substance and Eternity have the one scope and content. Enneads III,7,2
No doubt we make a very positive statement about it when we declare it to belong to the INTELLECTUAL KIND, to be of the divine order; but a deeper penetration of its nature is demanded. Enneads IV,2,1