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5.5 That the Intellectual Beings are not outside the Intellectual-Principle: and on The Nature of the Good

The IP is never wrong and never forgets
- It would be like SP's if it dealt with external impressions

Either the objects of the IP are senseless/devoid of life or they possess the intellect
- If the objects possess Intellect, they are in a unionized realm of Truth
- if the objects of the IP are without intelligence and life, they cannot be premisses, axioms, or predicates, since each concept would just stand on it's own without any assurance of their coherence or character, the IP would not be able to possess the truth of them

Sense-perceptions deal with beliefs which are phantasmic images

The Supreme rules the Intellect, Intellect rules everything else

3 Zeus is a symbol of the Soul, Kronos the IP, Ouranos >>21703200 the One

The First is intact even when other entities spring from it
- (Something from nothing? Law of conservation?)
- As Number is a host for Quantity, the One is host for reality

5 etymology starting with Being (I don't know anything about ancient greek I am just poorly copy pasting it if anyone cares about it but I thought it was neat. Maybe other translations are different)
- Reality/Essence -> ousia
- Hestia/hearth -> ἑστἱα(estia)
- Being/Existent -> ὄν
- One -> ἕν
- Existence -> εἶναι

6 The One has no Being
- Being must have definition and limit
- Pythagoreans deifed Apollo since his name means "not + of many" (α + πολλῷν)

"The light inherent to the sun would not be perceived but for the solidity of the mass"
- The sun is light entire, without any other properties

The thing of extension is least real of all, while what is most unseen (the One) has the most realness
- "You must turn appearances about or you will be left void of God...like those at festivals who cram themselves"

12 On Beauty

Sense perception of Beauty stirs awe and passion toward it, but the Good has been long possessed and stirs no wonder since it's always there
- Beauty causes pain for those in love with pursuing it, and is more sophisticated than love of Good
- Those that know Beauty judge it to exist for itself and not for them, as beauty belongs only to the possessor
- No one wants the Good in semblance only, as "they struggle venomously for Beauty as something secondary like themselves"
- "Beauty is all violence and stupefaction; it's pleasure is spoiled with pain and leads the thoughtless astray"

God is not the "All", that would make Him dependent upon the universe, thus he is separate from all things
- (God and Good seem to be used interchangeably)

Beauty/Being does not come from evil