 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...illumination proceeds from its principle into a material nature. " For the soul," says Macrobius/ " proceeding from a round figure, which is the only divine form, is produced into a cone by its defiuxion." And the same is true symbolically of intellect. And as to the wanton sports which bend... | |
 | Porphyry - Philosophy - 1823 - 298 pages
...From the confine, therefore, in which the zodiac and galaxy touch each other, the soul, descending from a round figure, which is the only divine form,...by its defluxion. And as a line is generated from a point, and proceeds into length from an indivisible, so the soul, from its own point, which is a monad,... | |
 | Heather Martin - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 168 pages
...From the confine, therefore, in which the zodiac and galaxy touch one another, the soul, descending from a round figure which is the only divine form, is produced into a cone.1 FAC Wilson explains this passage in his study of "Chosen": In Platonism, the soul has a pre-natal... | |
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... to human life. From the confine, therefore, in which the zodiac and galaxy touch each other, the soul, descending from a round figure, which is the only divine form, is produced into a cone by its defluxion. 