THESE SOULS DO NOT REMEMBER GOD; FOR THEY CONTINUE TO SEE HIM.
7. Will these souls not even remember that they have seen the divinity? (They have no need of doing so, for) they see Him all the time; as long as they continue to see Him they cannot say that they have seen Him, because such a statement would imply that they see Him no more.
MEMORY IS IMPOSSIBLE TO THESE SOULS, FOR TO THEM THERE IS NO TIME, BUT ONE SINGLE DAY.
Will they not even remember that they performed their revolution yesterday, or the year before, that they lived yesterday, and since have lived a long while? They still live continuously; now, what remains the same, is one. To try to distinguish yesterday and last year in the movement of the stars, is to do like a man who would divide into several parts the movement which forms one step, who would wish to reduce unity to multiplicity. Indeed, the movement of the stars is one, although it is by us subjected to a measure, as if it were multiple; so we count the days different one from the other because the nights separate them from each other. But since there is but one single day in the heavens, how could one count several? How could there be a “last year”?
BUT WHY COULD THE STAR-SOULS NOT BE CONSCIOUS OF OUR CHANGES?
It may be objected that the space transversed (by planets) is not a unity, but contains several parts, as notably in the zodiac. Why then could the celestial Soul not say, “I have passed this part, I have now arrived at another”? Besides, if the star-souls consider human things, how would they not see that there are changes here below, that the men existing to-day have succeeded others? If so, they must know that other men have already existed, that there have been other facts. They therefore possess memory.
- 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)