====== Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 9-17) - Descida das Almas aos Corpos (Guthrie) ======




**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.