====== Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 1-8) - Alma do Mundo e Alma Individual (Guthrie) ======




**FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK THREE.**
**Psychological Questions.**

//A. ARE NOT ALL SOULS PARTS OR EMANATIONS OF A SINGLE SOUL ?//


  * psychology obeys the precept "know thyself," and shows how we are temples of the divinity.


  * are individual souls emanations of the universal soul?


  * conformity to the universal soul implies that they are not parts of her.


  * limitations to the use of the term "parts," in physical things.


  * when applied to incorporeal things, "parts" have different senses.


  * such mathematical senses cannot be applied to the soul.


  * actual division into parts would be tantamount to a denial of the whole.


  * nor is the soul a part in the sense that one proposition is a part of a science.


  * the difference of functions of the world-soul and individual souls makes entire division between them impossible.


  * are individual souls part of the world-soul as is the local consciousness of some part of the body to the whole consciousness?


  * study of the question by observation of the human organism.


  * intellectual difficulty of the soul being one and yet in all beings.


  * the healthy soul can work, the sick soul is devoted to her body.


  * souls retain both their unity and differences on different levels.


  * souls develop manifoldness just as intelligence does.


  * why should creation be predicated of the universal soul and not of the human?


  * the world-soul alone creates because she remains nearest the intelligible world.


  * difference between individual and universal souls.


  * sympathy between individual and universal soul comes from common source.


  * difference between souls.


  * like the divinity, the soul is always one.


  * soul powers remain the same throughout all changes of body.