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>>21703872 5.7 Is there an Ideal Archetype of particular beings?

Is there a soul for Socrates and is that soul an eternal form? Or is there just a form of soul given to all, or are souls modified by the body and frame it is put into

Every soul contains all of the Reason-Principles that exist in the Cosmos
- Since the Cosmos has the Reason Principles of man and all individual living things, then the Soul does as well
- The Soul's content of Reason-Principles is limitless

There is a distinct Reason-Principle for an original Socrates
- (How do Souls change lives in reincarnation if they are purely original? Do they trade Reason-Principles?)

A distinct Reason Principle is the determinant for the offspring of two parents
- The Reason-principles of the parents mould the bodily substance of the child, depending on which principles are most dominant

Deformity is a power in Matter which thwarts nature by overmastering the perfect Reason Principles
- Differences in general, however, often result in beauty, so there must be a wide diversity of Reason-Principles or archetypes
- This infinitude of variety exists in every person (Sounds very transhumanist. However, Plotinus also seems to reprimand effeminate boys in 4.4, so sex ambiguity seems to be a matter of ethics for him rather than if it is possible or not)

If twins are precisely alike, there is one Reason-Principle which created both of them, or there are two which we can't differentiate
- Even if someone builds two clay pots that are identical, it is not in our power to perceive the difference

"As in Soul (principle of Life) so in Divine Mind (principle of Idea) there is this infinitude of recurring generative powers; the Beings there are unfailing"