In fact Plotinus does believe in divine providence, though when he talks about divine providence, he talks about that providence being exercised by the intellect and the soul of the world, rather than the One.

The world around you is some kind of distraction at best, and evil at worst, and you should be turning away from it.

There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps them.

The soul must be distinct from intellect because even at its best, what the soul does when it's thinking, is it thinks linguistically, it thinks in a temporarily extended way, so it for example, might go through the steps of an argument chain, as if you were going through a syllogism and seeing that something followed from the premises, whereas intellect simply grasps the forms.

Soul puts the determination or forms or images of forms, into matter.

We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to the intellect. They never fully descend as he would put it.

Sometimes clichés are true.