Full Idea
Soul, for all the worth we have shown to belong to it, is yet a secondary, an image of the Intellectual-Principle [Nous]; reason uttered is an image of reason stored within the soul, and similarly soul is an utterance of the Intellectual-Principle.
Gist of Idea
Even the soul is secondary to the Intellectual-Principle [Nous], of which soul is an utterance
Source
Plotinus (The Enneads [c.245], 5.1.03)
Book Reference
Plotinus: 'The Enneads', ed/tr. Mackenna,Stephen [Penguin 1991], p.350
A Reaction
It then turns out that Nous is secondary to the One, so there is a hierarchy of Being (which only enters at the Nous stage).
Related Ideas
Idea 21810 The Stoics distinguished spoken logos from logos within the mind [Stoic school, by Plotinus]
Idea 21808 Soul is author of all of life, and of the stars, and it gives them law and movement [Plotinus]