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to itself, and itself sometime generated, but ever in being ; 

 being too in generation and ever generated. Generation is 

 of qualities and quantities ; for it is moveable. 



11. For every material movement is generation. The 

 mental state (a) moves the material movement in this 

 manner, since the world is a sphere, that is a head ; but 

 above head there is nothing material; just as neither i& 

 there anything mental beneath the feet, but all material. 

 But Mind, head itself is moved spherically, that is simi- 

 larly to a head. As many things then as are united to 

 the membrane (&) of this the head wherein is the soul, 

 are by nature (c) immortal, as if [of the body formed in 

 Soul] ; and having the Soul full (d) of [or fuller than] x the 

 body. But things distant from the membrane, in which 

 the body possesses more than the soul, are by nature 

 mortal ; but all is a living animal ; so that the universe is 

 composed both of material and mental. 



12. And the World indeed is first, 2 but the Man second 

 animal after the World, but first of the things mortal ; and 

 indeed of the other animals he has the living quality (e)< 

 in him. Not, moreover, is he only not good, but also evil, 

 as mortal. For the World is not good as moveable, but 

 not evil as immortal, but the Man both as moveable and 

 as mortal is evil. 



13. But the Soul of man is carried on (/) in this way: 

 The Mind in the Eeason, the Eeason in the Soul, the Soul 

 in the Spirit, the Spirit in the Body. The Spirit pene- 

 trating through the veins and arteries and blood moves the 

 animal, and as it were, after a certain manner, supports it. 

 Wherefore also some have thought the Soul to be blood ; 

 being mistaken as to the nature, not knowing that first 

 must the Spirit return back into the Soul, and then the 



(a) vovrrv) ara,ais. (b) ru vptvi. (c) 



(d) TtKypTfi. (e) TO efA*J/v%o, (/) ' 



1 Menard reads TT^IU (more of soul than body), which is doubtless 

 the meaning. The passage is probably corrupt. 



2 This and the next section are extracted by Stobseus (Physica, 770 ;. 

 Meineke, i. 215). 



