====== Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 6-17) - Nos astros, no demiurgo e na alma do mundo, não há memória (Guthrie) ======




**FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK FOUR.**
**Questions About the Soul. (Second Part.) (6-17)**

**MEMORY IS LIMITED TO SOULS THAT CHANGE THEIR CONDITION.**

**DO THE WORLD-SOUL AND THE STAR-SOULS EXERCISE MEMORY?**

**THESE SOULS DO NOT REMEMBER GOD; FOR THEY CONTINUE TO SEE HIM.**

**MEMORY IS IMPOSSIBLE TO THESE SOULS, FOR TO THEM THERE IS NO TIME, BUT ONE SINGLE DAY.**

**BUT WHY COULD THE STAR-SOULS NOT BE CONSCIOUS OF OUR CHANGES?**

**MANY NEW THINGS ARE UNNOTICED; NOTHING FORCES THE PERCEPTION OF NEW THINGS.**

**MEMORY IS NOT COMPULSORY.**

**STAR-MOTIONS COMPARED TO A BALLET-CHORUS.**

**STARS HAVE NO MEMORY BECAUSE THEY ARE UNIFORMLY BLISSFUL.**

**QUESTION: DOES JUPITER'S ROYAL ADMINISTRATION IMPLY A USE OF MEMORY?**

**THE INFINITY OF JUPITER'S LIFE OPPOSES HIS USE OF MEMORY.**

**JUPITER MAY BE TAKEN IN A DOUBLE SENSE.**

**RATIOCINATION HAS NO PLACE IN THE WORLD-SOUL.**

**THIS UNIVERSAL WISDOM IS PERMANENT BECAUSE TIMELESS.**

**WISDOM, IN THE WORLD-SOUL DOES NOT IMPLY REASONING AND MEMORY.**

**OMNISCIENT INTUITION MAKES MEMORY AND REASONING SUPERFLUOUS.**

**IN THE WORLD-SOUL WISDOM IS THE HIGHEST AND NATURE THE LOWEST.**

**THERE IS CONTINUITY BETWEEN NATURE AND THE ELEMENTS.**

**HOW CAN TIME BE DIVIDED WITHOUT IMPLYING DIVISION OF THE SOUL'S ACTION?**

**IN TIME ARE ACTIONS AND REACTIONS OF THE SOUL; BUT NOT THE SOUL HERSELF.**

**QUESTION: EVEN THE PRIORITY OF ORDER IMPLIES A TEMPORAL CONCEPTION.**

**EARLIER AND LATER EXIST ONLY IN WHAT IS BEGOTTEN; NOT IN THEIR SEMINAL REASON.**

**THINGS WHICH ARE ANTERIOR CAN BE ONLY IN LOWER PRINCIPLES.**

**DIAGRAM OF THE UNIVERSE.**

**CIRCULAR MOVEMENT OF THE SOUL.**

**THE INTELLECTUAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE WORLD-SOUL, AND SOULS OF STARS, EARTH AND MEN.**

**SOULS, ACCORDING TO MORALIZATION, RESEMBLE VARIOUS FORMS OF GOVERNMENT.**