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4.8 The Soul's Descent Into Body

I forgot to post 4.8 yesterday, today is a short reading 4.9. I'll make another post for that later.
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Heraclitus speaks of metaphysics in terms of metaphors, not concerning himself with a doctrine since the answer is to be uniquely found within ourselves

Plato alternates between whether the Soul's descent is good or bad. In the cave allegory and in phaedrus the Soul is in a prison which it must escape, but in Timaeus the Cosmos is a 'blessed God', such that all things may be possessed by the intellectual

2 none of the bodily misfortunes can befall a soul which has never been deeply immersed in body, but is a sovereign over body/fear/desire

Everywhere people speak about bodily reality as a bitter and miserable durance, a prison and tomb in the cave that is the cosmos

4 when the Soul has lost its innocency of the higher sphere and falls to the lower, it has retained something of the transcendent. It can be free through making memory its starting point for a new essential being, and belong to both spheres of reality

5 Contradiction of divine sowing to birth vs voluntary descent, judgment vs. The cave, necessity vs will
Its OK to say the Soul is sent down by God, but what is the Soul's motive?
-Appetite for creativity
-atonement for any sins

All degeneration is involuntary, but when an "inherent tendency" brings about the inferiority

6 there must be something other than unity for unity to exist
Matter is necessary

The greatness of the Supreme is only fully known through the experience of evil insofar as it brings clearer perception of the good

The cosmic All Soul governs the universe with the part of it that is in body
-uses intellection in a different way than we do, since it has no need to make calculations. Similar to artistic creation

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The amount of times this man repeats the same writing about the soul descending into body and being Supreme in the intellectual sphere is way too much. I feel like I read this repeated every page.