<P> the one sort is intellect (nous) by becoming all things, the other sort by forming all things, in the way an active condition (hexis) like light too makes the colors that are in potency be at work as colors (to phōs poiei ta dunamei onta chrōmata energeiai chrōmata). </P> <P> This sort of intellect (which is like light in the way it makes potential things work as what they are) is separate, as well as being without attributes and unmixed, since it is by its thinghood a being - at - work (energeia), for what acts is always distinguished in stature above what is acted upon, as a governing source is above the material it works on . </P> <P> Knowledge (epistēmē), in its being - at - work, is the same as the thing it knows, and while knowledge in potency comes first in time in any one knower, in the whole of things it does not take precedence even in time . </P> <P> This does not mean that at one time it thinks but at another time it does not think, but when separated it is just exactly what it is, and this alone is deathless and everlasting (though we have no memory, because this sort of intellect is not acted upon, while the sort that is acted upon is destructible), and without this nothing thinks . </P>

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