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able, having motion, the energy of self. Ideas of Souls 

 are Divine, human, irrational. The Divine then indeed is 

 of the Divine body in which is the Energy of Self, for 

 indeed it is moved in Self, and moves itself, for when it 

 hath departed from mortal animals, having been separated 

 from the irrational parts of itself, going forth into the 

 Divine body as ever moveable, in itself it is moved, car- 

 ried round along with (a) the Universe. But the human 

 has indeed also somewhat of the Divine, but with it are 

 also conjoined (&) the irrationals, both the Desire and the 

 Vehemence (c) ; and these indeed are immortal, because they 

 also happen to be Energies, but the Energies of mortal 

 bodies. Wherefore indeed from the Divine part of the 

 Soul being in the Divine body, they happen to be afar off; 

 but when this has entered into a mortal body, these also 

 walk in (rf), and by the presence of them is generated ever 

 Human Soul. But that of the irrationals is constituted 

 of Vehemence also Desire. Wherefore also these the animals 

 were called irrational, through deprivation of the Eeason 

 of the Soul. But Fourth (Idea) understand that of the 

 inanimate, which being without the bodies, energizes 

 moving them. But this would be moved in the Divine 

 Body, and as it were in (e) passing moving them. 



XIX. 



OF THE SAME (Hid. ibid., 809; Meineke, i. 230). 



SOUL is then eternal intelligent Essence, having as intel- 

 lect (/) its own Eeason. But thinking with it it acquires (g) 

 thought of the Harmony. But separated from the physical 

 body it abides self according to self; it being of itself in 

 the intelligible World (ti). But it rules over its own Eeason 



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