FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK THREE.
Psychological Questions.
B. WHY AND HOW DO SOULS DESCEND INTO BODIES?
- two kinds of transmigration.
- study of first incarnation.
- how the universe is animated by the world soul.
- the world-soul progressively informs all things.
- the universal soul as model of reason, as intermediary and interpreter.
- souls are not cut off from intelligence during their descent and ascent.
- why souls take on different kinds of bodies.
- how souls come to descend.
- by a pun on “world” and “adornment,” plotinos shows men add to the beauty of the world.
- by a pun on “prometheus” and “providence,” plotinos employs the myth of pandora.
- why many souls succumb to the law of the order of the universe.
- the significance of misfortunes and punishments.
- from the intelligible world, souls first go into heaven.
- the descending graduations of existence.
GUTHRIE, K. S. Plotinus: Complete Works: In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods. [single Volume, Unabridged]. [s.l.] CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
- Guthrie: Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 1-8) – Alma do Mundo e Alma Individual
- Guthrie: Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 1) — A alma provém da alma do mundo
- Guthrie: Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 10) – THE WORLD-SOUL PROGRESSIVELY INFORMS ALL THINGS
- Guthrie: Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 11) – THE UNIVERSAL SOUL AS MODEL OF REASON
- Guthrie: Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 12) – SOULS ARE NOT CUT OFF FROM INTELLIGENCE
- Guthrie: Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 13) – HOW SOULS COME TO DESCEND
- Guthrie: Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 14) – PLOTINOS SHOWS MEN ADD TO THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD
- Guthrie: Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 15) – WHY MANY SOULS SUCCUMB TO THE LAW OF THE ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE
- Guthrie: Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 16) – THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MISFORTUNES AND PUNISHMENTS
- Guthrie: Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 17) – FROM THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD, SOULS FIRST GO INTO HEAVEN