FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK FOUR.
Questions About the Soul. (Second Part.)
SPEECH OF SOUL IN THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD.
MEMORY OF SOUL IN THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD.
IN THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD ALL THINGS ARE SIMULTANEOUS; HENCE NOT REMEMBERED.
INTELLIGENCE UNITES AS IT RISES TO THE INTELLIGIBLE.
NOT EVEN THE ASCENDED SOUL NEED BE DIVIDED.
THE UNITY OF APPERCEPTION IS MANIFOLD.
IN THE INTELLIGIBLE ANTERIORITY REFERS TO ORDER, NOT TO TIME.
INTELLIGENCE IS NOT A UNITY; BUT ITS MANIFOLD IS PRODUCED BY A UNITY.
THE SOUL DOES NOT EVEN REMEMBER HERSELF.
IN THE INTELLIGIBLE SELF-DIRECTION OF THOUGHT IS NOT CHANGEABLENESS.
THE SOUL BECOMES WHAT SHE REMEMBERS.
MEMORY IS NOT AS HIGH AS UNREFLECTIVE IDENTIFICATION.
INTELLIGIBLE ENTITIES ARE NOT MERELY IMAGES, BUT POTENTIALITIES FOR MEMORY.
INTELLIGIBLE ENTITIES RETURN, NOT BY MEMORY, BUT BY FURTHER VISION.
WHEN SOULS DESCEND FROM THE INTELLIGIBLE TO THE HEAVENS, THEY RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER.
TRAINING HERE BELOW WILL HELP THE SOULS TO REMEMBER WHEN BEYOND.
FALL INTO GENERATION MAY BE PARTIAL; AND MAY BE RECOVERED FROM, BEFORE RUIN.
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.
THE BODY IS NOT US, BUT OURS.
THE SOUL AND BODY TOGETHER FORM A FUSION OF BOTH.
THE SOUL FEELS THE PASSIONS WITHOUT EXPERIENCING THEM.
UNLESS THE SOUL WERE IMPASSIBLE SHE COULD NOT LOCALIZE AND MANAGE PAIN.
THE APPETITES ARE LOCATED NEITHER IN BODY NOR SOUL, BUT IN THEIR COMBINATION.
TWO KINDS OF DESIRES: OF THE BODY; AND OF THE COMBINATION, OR NATURE.
DESIRES ARE PHYSICAL, BECAUSE CHANGEABLE IN HARMONY WITH THE BODY.
RELATION OF DESIRE-FUNCTION TO THE VEGETATIVE POWERS.
PLATO IS IN DOUBT ABOUT THE EARTH’S SOUL; WHETHER SHE IS LIKE THOSE OF STARS.
THE EARTH CAN FEEL AS WELL AS ANY OF THE STARS.
QUESTION: WHAT PASSIONS WOULD BE SUITABLE TO THE EARTH?
SENSATION WILL FIRST HAVE TO BE EXAMINED.
RESTATEMENT OF PROBLEMS INVOLVED.
CONCEPTIVE THOUGHT DEMANDS THE INTERMEDIARY PROCESS OF SENSATION.
THE PURE SOUL WOULD REMAIN ISOLATED.
SENSATION DEPENDS ON THE SENSE-SHAPE, WHICH, LIKE TOOLS, IS INTERMEDIATE.
EXCLUSION OF OTHER SIDE ISSUES.
ARE THE SENSES GIVEN US ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF UTILITY?
ARE SENSES GIVEN THE STARS FOR UTILITY?
IF SENSATION IS A SOUL-DISTRACTION, THE STARS WOULD NOT INDULGE THEREIN.
THE EARTH FEELS AND DIRECTS BY THE LAWS OF SYMPATHETIC HARMONY.
THE EARTH’S SENSES MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM OURS.
ANALYSIS OF THE EARTH’S PSYCHOLOGY.
DOES THE IRASCIBLE POWER ALSO ORIGINATE IN THE BODY?
THE LIVER IS THE SEAT OF THE SOUL’S FACULTY OF DESIRE.
THE HEART IS THE SEAT OF ANGER.
ANGER ORIGINATES IN THE VEGETATIVE AND GENERATIVE POWER, AS TRACE OF THE SOUL.
WHEN THE SOUL LEAVES THE BODY, SHE LEAVES A TRACE OF LIFE.
DOES THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THESE THINGS NECESSARILY IMPLY THEIR DESTRUCTION?
THREE POSSIBLE INTERRELATIONS OF THE SOUL’S SUPERIOR AND INFERIOR BODIES.
CAN THE PHYSICAL LIFE EXIST WITHOUT THE SOUL?
STARS, AS WELL AS THE SUN, HAVE PRAYERS ADDRESSED TO THEM.
BENEFITS ARE GRANTED TO MEN THROUGH THE WORLD-SOUL’S MEDIATION.
STATEMENT OF THREE QUESTIONS.
NATURAL ACTIONS ARE BOTH ON WHOLES AND ON PARTS.
MOST OF THE ARTS ACHIEVE THEIR OWN ENDS.
ABSURDITY OF PTOLEMEAN ASTROLOGY.
NO CRIMES SHOULD BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE INFLUENCE OF SUBLUNARY DIVINITIES.
HAVING CONFUTED ASTROLOGY AND DEVILTRY, WORLD INFLUENCE IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORLD-SOUL.
THE STARS’ MOTIONS COMPARED TO A PREARRANGED DANCE.
THE INFLUENCE OF THE UNIVERSE SHOULD BE PARTIAL ONLY.
ASTROLOGICAL INFLUENCE MERELY INDICATION.
ASTROLOGICAL INFLUENCE MAY BE PARTLY ACTION; PARTLY MERE SIGNIFICANCE.
EARTHLY EVENTS SHOULD NOT BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE STARS’ BODY OR WILL.
THE INFLUENCE OF THE STARS CONSISTS IN THEIR CONTEMPLATION OF THE INTELLIGIBLE WORLD.
STAR INFLUENCE IS EXPLAINED BY THEIR NATURAL RADIATION OF GOOD.
SPECIAL FIGURES HAVE INDIVIDUAL EFFECTS, DUE TO THEIR CHARACTERISTICS.
NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE IS ENTIRELY INANIMATE.
CONSCIOUSNESS DEPENDS ON CHOOSING; EVERYTHING HAS POWERS, THOUGH HIDDEN.
PRODUCTION IS DUE TO SOME PHYSICAL SOUL, NOT TO ANY ASTROLOGICAL POWER.
ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS ARE ONLY CONCATENATIONS FROM UNIVERSAL REASON.
THE GODS CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR ILLS.
MAGIC OCCURS BY LOVE WORKING AS SYMPATHY.
HOW PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED.
AS THE STARS ANSWER PRAYERS UNCONSCIOUSLY, THEY DO NOT NEED MEMORIES THEREFOR.
THE PRAYERS OF EVEN THE EVIL ARE ANSWERED, IF MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH NATURAL LAW.
THE WORLD-SOUL AND STARS ARE IMPASSIBLE.
HOW THE WISE MAN ESCAPES ALL ENCHANTMENTS.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GUARDIANS.
AN ACTIVE LIFE MAKES MEN MORE LIABLE TO ENCHANTMENTS.
MAGIC HAS POWER OVER MAN BY HIS AFFECTIONS AND WEAKNESSES.
HONESTY ESCAPES MAGIC ONLY BECAUSE IT RESULTS FROM CONTEMPLATION OF THE INTELLIGIBLE.
HOW TO AVOID MAGIC ENCHANTMENTS.
EVERY BEING THEREFORE IS A SPECIALIZED ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSE.
HUMAN NATURE IS INTERMEDIATE, SUFFERING WITH THE WHOLE, BUT ALSO ACTING ON IT.
BY A SECRET ROAD EACH ONE IS LED TO DIVINE RETRIBUTION.
EXISTENCE OF HEAVEN; HELL’S TORMENTS ARE REFORMATORY.