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body to the Harmony. But of the Harmony there are 

 three forms, that according to the warm, and that accord- 

 ing to the cold, and that according to the mean. But it 

 adapts according to the prevailing Star() of the com- 

 bination (6) of the Stars. But Soul having received it 

 as is fated, to that affords life by the operation of the 

 Nature. The Nature then assimilates the Harmony of 

 the Body to the combination of the Stars, and unites the 

 commixture (c) to the Harmony of the Constellations, so 

 as to have sympathy towards each other. For the end 

 of the Harmony of the Stars is the engendering sympathy 

 according to their Fate. 



XVII. ,4 * o^ 



OF THE SAME (Stobccus, Physica, 803; MeincJce, I 228; 

 Patrit., 41). 



THE Soul then, Ammon ! is Essence having finality in 

 itself (d), in origin having received life, that according to 

 Fate, and has drawn to itself Eeason like to the Matter, 

 having Vehemence (e) and Desire. And the Vehemence 

 indeed exists as Matter ; this if it shall habituate itself (/) 

 to the intelligence of the Soul becomes Courage, and is 

 not led away by cowardice. But the Desire is accordingly. 

 It, if it shall habituate itself to the rationality (#) of the 

 Soul, becomes Modesty, and is not moved by pleasure. 

 For the rationality completes that deficient in the Desire. 

 But when both shall mentally agree and shall practise an 

 equal habitude (K), and both be holden (i) by the ration- 

 ality of the Soul, Justice is generated. For the equal 

 habitude of these takes away the excess of the Vehemence, 

 and equalizes that defective in the Desire. Origin of these 



(a) dart pen. (6) ffwyx.pdi(rea$. (c) rol 



(d) ayroreAjjf. (e) Ovpos. (/) '/ 



(h) 1w t* t . (t) 



