/lit/ - Literature

This section should be read with the astronomy of the time in mind, as they didn't believe in void and Plotinus states that heaven starts just after the moon.
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>God -> gods -> Soul -> souls -> animals
My translation reads more like
>God -> heavenly parts
But also
>God -> gods -> (this step being an imitation of God -> heavenly parts) sublunary living beings
And that us sublunary living beings are made from worse bodies and in a worse location, and that our bodies are not mastered like they would be if another soul(? who) ruled over them directly. There's also a note that the major contributor to our mere existing is nature, but that the higher soul, through calculative reasoning, causes human flourishing.

God is Being itself, which is so full of Love that it by necessity needs to "pour out" excess Being, which then becomes the entirety of the created universe, but at the same time is still perfectly synonymous with God.

This is at least according to the neo-platonists, which is an interpretation of God that I am partial to.