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Despite the identity of the thinker and the thought, the multiplicity of the Ideas means that Intellect does not possess the total simplicity which
belongs to the One. Indeed, it is this complexity of Intellect that convinced Plotinus that there must be something else prior to it and superior to it.
For, he believed, every form of complexity must ultimately depend on something totally simple. The intellectual cosmos is, indeed, boundlessly rich.

"In that world there is no stinting nor poverty, but everything is full of life, boiling over with life. Everything flows from a single fount, not some special kind of
breath or warmth, but rather a single quality containing unspoilt all qualities, sweetness of taste and smell, wine on the palate and the essence of every aroma,
visions of colours and every tangible feeling, and every melody and every rhythm that hearing can absorb."

This is the world of Being, Thought, and Life; and though it is the world of Intellect, it also contains desire as an essential element. Thinking is indeed
itself desire, as looking is a desire of seeing. Knowledge too is desire, but satisfied desire, the consummation of a quest. In
the Intellect desire is ‘always desiring and always attaining its desire.