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.
- Tratado 28 (IV, 3, 1) – PSYCHOLOGY OBEYS THE PRECEPT “KNOW THYSELF” (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 3, 2) – CONFORMITY TO THE UNIVERSAL SOUL IMPLIES THAT THEY ARE NOT PARTS OF HER (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 3, 3) – ARE INDIVIDUAL SOULS PART OF THE WORLD-SOUL? (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 3, 4) – INTELLECTUAL DIFFICULTY OF THE SOUL BEING ONE AND YET IN ALL BEINGS (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 3, 5) – SOULS RETAIN BOTH THEIR UNITY AND DIFFERENCES ON DIFFERENT LEVELS (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 3, 6) – WHY SHOULD CREATION BE PREDICATED OF THE UNIVERSAL SOUL AND NOT OF THE HUMAN? (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 3, 7) – DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND UNIVERSAL SOULS (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 3, 8) – SYMPATHY BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND UNIVERSAL SOUL (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 1-5) – A memória em sua relação à união da alma e do corpo (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 1) – SPEECH OF SOUL IN THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 10) – JUPITER MAY BE TAKEN IN A DOUBLE SENSE (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 11) – RATIOCINATION HAS NO PLACE IN THE WORLD-SOUL (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 12) – WISDOM, IN THE WORLD-SOUL DOES NOT IMPLY REASONING AND MEMORY (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 13) – IN THE WORLD-SOUL WISDOM IS THE HIGHEST AND NATURE THE LOWEST (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 14) – THERE IS CONTINUITY BETWEEN NATURE AND THE ELEMENTS (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 15) – HOW CAN TIME BE DIVIDED WITHOUT IMPLYING DIVISION OF THE SOUL’S ACTION? (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 16) – EVEN THE PRIORITY OF ORDER IMPLIES A TEMPORAL CONCEPTION? (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 17) – THE INTELLECTUAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE WORLD-SOUL, AND SOULS OF STARS, EARTH AND MEN (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 18-29) – O prazer e a dor, o desejo e a cólera em sua relação à união da alma e do corpo (Guthrie)
- Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 18) – THE BODY IS NOT US, BUT OURS (Guthrie)