/lit/ - Literature

II.4.5:
>Those that ascribe Real Being to Matter must be admitted to be right as long as they keep to the Matter of the Intelligible Realm: for the Base there is Being, or even, taken as an entirety with the higher that accompanies it, is illuminated Being.
This is what I'm about. I've felt uneasy about the dualism and it's implied acesticsm as you've no doubt seen. This kind of illuminated stoicism is to me pure Kino. I can accept what he goes on to say about the movement and differentiation as obviously this reality is ephemeral. But to me the change is illusory. Maybe it's because at times I've been deep into advaita but this idea of Illuminated Being really strikes a cord, sans the bifurcation. Would you agree that the differentiation he talks about in the latter part of 5 is thought itself? Such that the differentiation of though creates motion. This is very: our thoughts make the world buddhist stuff.
Anyway 5 really gets me. The passage I quote above puts me in mind of this kind of enlightened animism where the intelligibility of the cosmos coheres and coordinates with its divinity, i.e. such that it is and is knowable it is divine.