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.
GUTHRIE, K. S. Plotinus: Complete Works: In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods. [single Volume, Unabridged]. [s.l.] CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 25) – COSMIC QUESTIONS ABOUT MEMORY DEPEND ON EXACT DEFINITION OF WHAT MEMORY IS (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 26) – THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SENSATION (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 27) – MEMORY BELONGS BOTH TO THE DIVINE SOUL, AND TO THAT DERIVED FROM THE WORLD-SOUL (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 28) – MEMORY DOES NOT BELONG TO APPETITE (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 29) – MEMORY DOES NOT BELONG TO THE FACULTY OF SENSATION (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 3) — Consciousness of some part of the body to the whole consciousness? (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 30) – INTELLECTUAL CONCEPTIONS ARE NOT ENTIRELY PRESERVED BY IMAGINATION (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 31) – THE TWO KINDS OF MEMORY IMPLY TWO KINDS OF IMAGINATION (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) – TWO KINDS OF TRANSMIGRATION (Guthrie)
- Tratado 27 (IV, 3) – Psychological Questions. (Guthrie)