/lit/ - Literature

>>16411265
>Even in context of the Egyptian influence the delivery is completely sterilized.
Uzdavinys for all his brilliance and erudition was a poor study on Plato directly, didn't understand him at all, in spite of how much he read the neoPLATOnists.

They are, my son—very crude people. But these others, whose
mysteries I am going to tell you, are a much more subtle type. These
mysteries begin from the principle on which all that we have just been
saying also depends, namely, that everything is really motion, and there
is nothing but motion. Motion has two forms, each an infinite multitude,
but distinguished by their powers, the one being active and the other
passive. And through the intercourse and mutual friction of these two
b there comes to be an offspring infinite in multitude but always twin births,
on the one hand what is perceived, on the other, the perception of it, the
perception in every case being generated together with what is perceived
and emerging along with it.