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the servitude, 1 and should indeed the two portions be 

 conquered, they remain deserted of themselves (a) and of 

 their ruler; but if the one be vanquished it is led and 

 carried off by the two, being punished by the mode of 

 living here (6). This, Child ! is the guide of the way 

 thither ; for it behoveth thee, Child ! first to anoint 

 the body before the end, and to conquer in the life of 

 striving (c), and having conquered thus, to return. 2 But 

 now, Child ! I will go through under heads, the Entities ; 

 for thou wilt understand the things spoken having remem- 

 bered those which thou hast heard. All the Entities are 

 moved, that not being only is immoveable. Eveiy body 

 changeable, not every body dissoluble. Some of the bodies 

 are dissoluble. Not every animal mortal, not every animal 

 immortal. The dissoluble is corruptible, that abiding im- 

 mutable, the immutable eternal. That ever generate ever 

 also is corrupted ; but that once for all generate is never 

 corrupted, nor becomes anything else. First The God, 

 second the World, third the Man; The World because of 

 the Man, but the Man because of The God. Of the Soul, 

 the sensible (d) indeed is mortal, but the rational immortal. 



(a) This passage is corrupt. (6) ry I 



(c) ivocyuviov ftiov. (d) TO ot,i<jQ-/rrov. 



1 The latter portion of the seventh chapter of the Epistle to the 

 Komans is much in point, ending ver. 23 : " But I see a different law 

 in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing 

 me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members," &c. 



2 In the Phaedon (65), Socrates and Simmias agree that the philo- 

 sopher must disengage his soul entirely from the communion with 

 the body, differently from the many, who think pleasure only worth 

 living for ; the genuine philosopher must stand apart from all these. 

 (66) Whence come wars and fightings, but from the body and its 

 lusts? Wars are necessitated by love of money for the sake of the 

 service of the body; money must be acquired for the body to the 

 neglect of philosophy. (67) The purification of the soul, is it not 

 this : the separating the soul as much as can be from the body, and to 

 place itself altogether by itself, apart from the connection and con- 

 junction of the body, and to dwell as far as possible at present and 

 in future alone by itself, loosed as it were from the chains of the 

 body? 



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