"Ennead VI.4-5", originally written as a single treatise, contains Plotinus most general and sustained exposition of the relationship between the intelligible and the sensible realms, addressing and coalescing two central issues in Platonism: the nature of the soul-body relationship and the nature of participation. Its main question is, How can soul animate bodies without sharing their extension? The treatise seems to have had considerable impact: it is much reflected in Porphyrys important work, Sententiae, and the doctrine of reception according to the capacity of the recipient, for which...