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isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter vi (the conflict between religion and science)

“Plato, (in Laws 10), defines soul as “the motion that is able to move itself.” “Soul is the most ancient of all things, and the commencement of motion.” “Soul was generated prior to body, and body is posterior and secondary, as being, according to nature, ruled over by the ruling soul.” “The soul which administers [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter vi (the conflict between religion and science)

“The daemonium of Socrates was this νους, mind, spirit, or understanding of the divine in it. “The νους of Socrates”, says Plutarch, “was pure and mixed itself with the body no more than necessity required. Every soul hath some portion of νους, reason, a man cannot be a man without it; but as much of [...]