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[Anonymous No.14576377]

Pythagoreanism and Platonism thread. Post excerpts and discuss.

>"The principle of all things, therefore, not having any difference, is always present; but we are present with it when we have no difference. And it indeed does not aspire after us, in order that it may be conversant with us ; but we aspire after it, in order that we may revolve about it. We indeed perpetually revolve about it, but we do not always behold it. As a band of singers, however, though it moves about the coryphaeus, may be diverted to the survey of something foreign to the choir [and thus become discordant but when it converts itself to him, sings well, and truly subsists about him ; —thus also we perpetually revolve about the principle of all things, even when we are perfectly loosened from it, and have no longer a knowledge of it. Nor do we always look to it ; but when we behold it, then we obtain the end of our wishes, and rest [from our search after felicity]. Then also we are no longer discordant, but form a truly divine dance about it. In this dance, however, the soul beholds the fountain of life, the fountain of intellect, the principle of being, the cause of good, and the root of soul."

[Anonymous No.14576404]

[Anonymous No.14576422]

>>14576404
Based

[Anonymous No.14577132]

>>14576422
>>14576404
Hylics impeding a metaphysical discussion; that's unfortunate. Bump.