The Enneads

[On] What is the Good, in which all things [participate]. On Immortality original: "peri tēs athanasias," referring to the immortality of the soul. Of which the
1 beginning is: "Whether each of us is immortal." On Fate. Of which the
2 beginning is: "Since all things that come to be..." On the Essence of the Soul. Of which the beginning is:
3 "What kind of thing the [nature] of the soul..." On Intellect, the Ideas, and Being.
4 Of which the beginning is: "All people, having been born from the beginning..." On the
5 descent of the soul into bodies. Of which the beginning is: "Often being awakened..."
6 How that which is after the First comes from the First; and on the One. Of
7 which the beginning is: "If there is something after the First." Are all souls one?
8 Of which the beginning is: "Are all souls..." On the Good or the One.
9 Of which the beginning is: "All beings..." On the three primary hypostases hypostases: the three fundamental levels of reality in Neoplatonism: The One, Intellect, and Soul.
10 Of which the beginning is: "What then is it that has made the souls..."
11 On the generation and order of those after the First. Of which the beginning is: "The One [is]
12 all things." On the two Matters. Of which the beginning is: "The so-called Matter..."
13 Differences of underlying things. Of which the beginning is: "The god says Intellect is in essence."
14 On circular motion. Of which the beginning is: "Why does it move in a circle?" On
15 the guardian spirit that has fallen to our lot. Of which the beginning is: "While the hypostases of some..."
16 On the reasonable exit original: "eulogou exagōgēs," a Stoic and Neoplatonic term for suicide under specific philosophical conditions. Of which the beginning is: "He will not lead himself out... or life..."
17, 18 On quality. Of which the beginning is: "Whether being is one... or that in according to..."
19 According to essence. Of which the beginning is: "Whether in the particulars..." And on life.
20 Of which the beginning is: "Since evils are here..." On Dialectic. Of which the beginning is:
21 "What art or method..." How the soul is said to be between the divisible and
indivisible, being as it is in the middle. Of which the beginning is: "In the world of the intelligible intelligible: the realm of pure thought and forms, accessible to the mind rather than the senses..."

These things then one must know as being [written] when his sixty-fifth year was completed. Through which [titles] I have listed them. Except for those [written] in the following five years by Plotinus. But never in this year following [did he write] five other years. And a little before his death, which was calculated by years. Then how [it was] by nature in the seventh [book]. The birth pangs original: "ōdinas," a metaphor for the intense intellectual labor and "labor pains" Plotinus experienced when a new idea was forming of Plotinus from them the birth pangs... while he remained silent in other ways in his lectures. Of which indeed the same...