Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 6-17) – Nos astros, no demiurgo e na alma do mundo, não há memória (Guthrie)

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.