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.