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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"godflesh",<br>"author":"godflesh",<br>"permlink":"life-and-creativity-of-plotinus-part-5",<br>"title":"Life and creativity of Plotinus \/part 5\/",<br>"body":"The first soul or the World Soul in its nature is lethal,<br> but it mediates between the purely spiritual world of reason and matter. Thus,<br> the individual human souls mediate between the intelligent world and the body. This is precisely a contradiction in Plotin's teachings because,<br> as we shall see,<br> he teaches that matter is not a direct creation of God,<br> of the first,<br> but is produced \/ emanated \/ by the soul. He also taught that none of the spheres of being is creeping to the underlying sphere. But here for the soul he thinks that she mediates between the higher of her,<br> the spirit and the lower of it,<br> the matter. So,<br> it goes down. \n\n![plotinus41.jpg (https:\/\/cdn.steemitimages.com\/DQmYXqjpstZx4PEHUbNwNuaNBBGRVqQ8E4dwXipeaRXunDm\/plotinus41.jpg)\n[image source (http:\/\/www.plotinus.com\/who_was_plotinus1_copy.htm)\n\n\nPlato in this regard taught that the soul being God's and spiritual creation is attracted and temporarily enslaved by matter that is neither emanated by the soul nor directly created by God but is eternally existing and hostile to the spiritual. Both the World Soul and the individual human soul are,<br> according to Plotin,<br> with this peculiarity that it is both in the whole of its body and in every part of it - as whole,<br> it is divided,<br> as far as it is in all parts of it,<br> in which is,<br> but it is indivisible,<br> as it is in all its parts and in its parts as a whole \"as is said in the fourth verse. But,<br> Plotin goes further and teaches that in every single human soul the entire World Soul is manifested. In a new era,<br> this is what they are trying to explain by comparing with the sound: as a tune transmitted by the radio transmitter is perceived in every single place,<br> from every receiver to the transmitter as a whole melody,<br> and the World Soul is reflected as a whole from each separate soul,<br> wherever she is.\n\n\nFollowing his logical thought,<br> Plotin went further and taught that not only in every individual soul the World Soul is acting,<br> but also that each individual soul has compassion and has always been part of the cosmic manifestations of the World Soul. In the fifth \"Enead\",<br> it is stated: \"It follows that each individual soul must realize for itself that it was who created all living beings and inspired life on everything that is on the earth,<br> in the sea and air ; also of the divine stars of heaven; that she was the one who created the sun and this majestic sky,<br> it is - which has given Him the round movement; it is - which is by nature much higher than anything that suits and moves and makes strangles. \" The last sphere of existence,<br> according to Plotin,<br> is the material sense world. It is the ultimate most perfect degree of divine power expansion. This sense world,<br> in contrast to the supernatural,<br> is something multicultural,<br> divisible,<br> variable,<br> subordinate to necessity,<br> time and space,<br> and is therefore devoid of originality. The cause of imperfection is the matter,<br> which is the common substrate of every origin and every change. \n\nBy its being,<br> it is unformed and incomparable,<br> but it is an opportunity for formation. At the same time,<br> it is the source of every evil,<br> so much so that the Divine manifestation is so weak that it goes unhealthy into something unobtrusive. For,<br> according to Plotin,<br> evil is not a matter of substance,<br> real and acting,<br> and it is only a shortcoming,<br> a lack of good. Such a lack of good being is matter. From it the evil passes into the sense world and hence into the embodied souls themselves. But matter is still necessary: \u200b\u200bthe light in its final departure from its source passes into matter,<br> but without it,<br> the sensory world of phenomena can not emerge.",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"godflesh\",<br>\"philosophy\",<br>\"education\",<br>\"culture\",<br>\"steemiteducation\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/cdn.steemitimages.com\/DQmYXqjpstZx4PEHUbNwNuaNBBGRVqQ8E4dwXipeaRXunDm\/plotinus41.jpg\" ,<br>\"links\":[\"http:\/\/www.plotinus.com\/who_was_plotinus1_copy.htm\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
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