====== Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 30-45) - A influência dos astros é devida à simpatia (Guthrie) ======




**FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK FOUR.**
**Questions About the Soul. (Second Part.) (30-45)**

**STARS, AS WELL AS THE SUN, HAVE PRAYERS ADDRESSED TO THEM.**

**BENEFITS ARE GRANTED TO MEN THROUGH THE WORLD-SOUL'S MEDIATION.**

**STATEMENT OF THREE QUESTIONS.**

**NATURAL ACTIONS ARE BOTH ON WHOLES AND ON PARTS.**

**MOST OF THE ARTS ACHIEVE THEIR OWN ENDS.**

**ABSURDITY OF PTOLEMEAN ASTROLOGY.**

**NO CRIMES SHOULD BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE INFLUENCE OF SUBLUNARY DIVINITIES.**

**HAVING CONFUTED ASTROLOGY AND DEVILTRY, WORLD INFLUENCE IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORLD-SOUL.**

**THE STARS' MOTIONS COMPARED TO A PREARRANGED DANCE.**

**THE INFLUENCE OF THE UNIVERSE SHOULD BE PARTIAL ONLY.**

**ASTROLOGICAL INFLUENCE MERELY INDICATION.**

**ASTROLOGICAL INFLUENCE MAY BE PARTLY ACTION; PARTLY MERE SIGNIFICANCE.**

**EARTHLY EVENTS SHOULD NOT BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE STARS' BODY OR WILL.**

**THE INFLUENCE OF THE STARS CONSISTS IN THEIR CONTEMPLATION OF THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD.**

**STAR INFLUENCE IS EXPLAINED BY THEIR NATURAL RADIATION OF GOOD.**

**SPECIAL FIGURES HAVE INDIVIDUAL EFFECTS, DUE TO THEIR CHARACTERISTICS.**

**NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE IS ENTIRELY INANIMATE.**

**CONSCIOUSNESS DEPENDS ON CHOOSING; EVERYTHING HAS POWERS, THOUGH HIDDEN.**

**PRODUCTION IS DUE TO SOME PHYSICAL SOUL, NOT TO ANY ASTROLOGICAL POWER.**

**ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS ARE ONLY CONCATENATIONS FROM UNIVERSAL REASON.**

**THE GODS CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR ILLS.**

**MAGIC OCCURS BY LOVE WORKING AS SYMPATHY.**

**HOW PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED.**

**AS THE STARS ANSWER PRAYERS UNCONSCIOUSLY, THEY DO NOT NEED MEMORIES THEREFOR.**

**THE PRAYERS OF EVEN THE EVIL ARE ANSWERED, IF MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH NATURAL LAW.**

**THE WORLD-SOUL AND STARS ARE IMPASSIBLE.**

**HOW THE WISE MAN ESCAPES ALL ENCHANTMENTS.**

**THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GUARDIANS.**

**AN ACTIVE LIFE MAKES MEN MORE LIABLE TO ENCHANTMENTS.**

**MAGIC HAS POWER OVER MAN BY HIS AFFECTIONS AND WEAKNESSES.**

**HONESTY ESCAPES MAGIC ONLY BECAUSE IT RESULTS FROM CONTEMPLATION OF THE INTELLIGIBLE.**

**HOW TO AVOID MAGIC ENCHANTMENTS.**

**EVERY BEING THEREFORE IS A SPECIALIZED ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSE.**

**HUMAN NATURE IS INTERMEDIATE, SUFFERING WITH THE WHOLE, BUT ALSO ACTING ON IT.**

**BY A SECRET ROAD EACH ONE IS LED TO DIVINE RETRIBUTION.**

**EXISTENCE OF HEAVEN; HELL'S TORMENTS ARE REFORMATORY.**