  The role of Intellect is to account for the real distinctness of the plethora of Forms, virtually united in the One.  Thus, in the above mathematical example, the fact that numbers are virtually united does not gainsay the fact that each has an identity.  The way that identity is maintained is by each and every Form being thought by an eternal Intellect.  And in this thinking, Intellect ‘attains’ the One in the only way it possibly can.  It attains all that can be thought; hence, all that can be thought ‘about’ the One.