THE SOUL PRESENT IN THE BODY AS LIGHT IN AIR.
22. This is the better illustration: the soul is present in the body as light is present in air. Light is indeed present in air without being present to it; that is, light is present to the whole air without mingling with it, and light remains within itself while the air escapes. When the air, within which light radiates, withdraws from the light, the air keeps none of the light; but it is illuminated so long as the air remains subject to the action of light. Air, therefore, is in light, rather than light is in air. While explaining the generation of the universe, therefore, Plato properly locates the body (of the world) in the soul, and not the soul in the body. He also states that there is a part of the soul that contains the body, and another in which there is no body, in this sense, that there are soul-powers of which the body has no need. The case is similar with the other souls. Their powers in general are not present to bodies, and only those powers of which the body stands in need are present to it. These however are present to the body without being built up either on the members, or upon the body as a whole. For sensation, the faculty of feeling is entirely present to the whole organ which is feeling (as, for instance, to the whole brain); likewise for the other functions, the different faculties are each present to a different organ. I shall explain myself.
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 1-8) – Alma do Mundo e Alma Individual (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 1) — A alma provém da alma do mundo (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 10) – THE WORLD-SOUL PROGRESSIVELY INFORMS ALL THINGS (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 11) – THE UNIVERSAL SOUL AS MODEL OF REASON (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 12) – SOULS ARE NOT CUT OFF FROM INTELLIGENCE (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 13) – HOW SOULS COME TO DESCEND (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 14) – PLOTINOS SHOWS MEN ADD TO THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 15) – WHY MANY SOULS SUCCUMB TO THE LAW OF THE ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 16) – THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MISFORTUNES AND PUNISHMENTS (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 17) – FROM THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD, SOULS FIRST GO INTO HEAVEN (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 18) – DOES THE SOUL EMPLOY DISCURSIVE REASON WHILE DISCARNATE? (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 19) – HOW CAN THE SOUL SIMULTANEOUSLY BE DIVISIBLE AND INDIVISIBLE? (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 2) — Alma e Alma-do-Mundo: ser da mesma espécie não significa ser uma parte (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 20-23) – Relations between soul and body (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 20) – IF FUNCTIONS ARE NOT LOCALIZED THE SOUL WILL NOT SEEM ENTIRELY WITHIN US (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 21) – THIS LEAVES THE QUESTION OF THE MANNER OF THE SOUL’S PRESENCE (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 23) – WHILE THE SOUL-POWER IS EVERYWHERE… (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 24) — WHERE GOES THE SOUL AFTER DEATH? (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 25-31) — What are the conditions of the operation of memory and imagination? (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 25) – COSMIC QUESTIONS ABOUT MEMORY DEPEND ON EXACT DEFINITION OF WHAT MEMORY IS (Guthrie)