Introduction

The First Ennead:

  • On virtue

  • On dialectic [the upward way]

  • On true happiness

  • Happiness and extension of time

  • Beauty

  • On the primal good and secondary forms of good [otherwise, on happiness]

  • On the nature and source of evil

  • The reasoned dismissal

The Second Ennead:

  • The heavenly circuit

  • Are the stars causes

  • Matter in its two kinds

  • On potentiality and actuality

  • Quality and form-idea

  • On complete transfusion

  • Why distant objects appear small

  • Against those that affirm the creator of the cosmos and the cosmos itself to be evil: [generally quoted as "Against the gnostics"]

The Third Ennead:

  • On providence (1)

  • On providence (2)

  • Our tutelary spirit

  • On love

  • The impassivity of the unembodied

  • Time and eternity

  • Nature contemplation and the One

  • Detached considerations

The Fourth Ennead:

  • On the essence of the soul (2)

  • Problems of the soul (1)

  • Problems of the soul (2)

  • Problems of the soul (3) [also entitled "On sight"]

  • Perception and memory

  • The immortality of the soul

  • The soul's descent into body

  • Are all souls one?

The Fifth Ennead:

  • The origin and order of the beings following on the first

  • The knowing hypostases and the transcendent

  • How the secondaries rise from the first: and on the One

  • That the intellectual beings are not outside the intellectual-principle: and on the nature of the good

  • That the principle transcending being has no intellectual act: what being has intellection primally and what being has it secondarily

  • Is there an" ideal archetype of particular beings

  • On the intellectual beauty

  • The intellectual-principle, the" ideas, and the authentic existence

The Sixth Ennead:

  • On the kinds of being (2)

  • On the kinds of being (3)

  • On the integral omnipresence of the authentic existent (1)

  • On the integral omnipresence of the authentic existent (2)

  • On numbers

  • How the multiplicity of the ideal-forms came into being: and on the good

  • On free-will and the will of the One

  • On the good, or the One