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.

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, 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, 25-31) — What are the conditions of the operation of memory and imagination? (Guthrie)
Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 3) — Consciousness of some part of the body to the whole consciousness? (Guthrie)
Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 4) — Intellectual difficulty of the soul being one and yet in all beings. (Guthrie)
Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 5) — Souls retain both their unity and differences on different levels. (Guthrie)
Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 6) — Why should creation be predicated of the universal soul and not of the human? (Guthrie)
Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 7) — Difference between individual and universal souls. (Guthrie)
Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 8) — Sympathy between individual and universal soul comes from common source. (Guthrie)
Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 9-17) – Descida das Almas aos Corpos (Guthrie)
Tratado 27 (IV, 3) – Psychological Questions. (Guthrie)

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, 22) – THE SOUL PRESENT IN THE BODY AS LIGHT IN AIR (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)