Recognition of each other by souls, descending from intelligiblesinto heaven, iv.
Evidently, it is intelligence that is manifold; the intelligibles that it thinks do not form unity, but manifoldness, and they are identical therewith.
Beyond the sensible world, Plato conceived another world of intelligibles or ideas.
The reason on the other hand, which has to do with immaterial ideas, or intelligibles as they called them, is eternal and is not the form of the body.
Now the human soul has the most important power of all other animals, that of grasping intelligibles or universals.
The acquired intellect gives these intelligibles to the soul through the possible intellect, and is intermediate between the latter and the Active Intellect, which is one of the separate Intelligences above soul.
As the winds flying with dust, darken the fair face of the sky; so the intellect being daubed with the intelligibles (the subjective soiled with the objective), obscure the clear visage of the soul.
They call it ignorance avidya, when the intellect is vitiated by its intellection of the intelligibles or chetyas, but the intelligibles being left out, it comes to know the soul which is free from all attributes.
He is said to be the all-inhering element, and Intelligence only without the intelligibles in it; He is the pure light that gives every being its consciousness of itself.
Is this intuition similar to the intuition of an object grasped in its entirety by a single glance, or does it contain all the thoughts of the intelligibles contemplated simultaneously?
Thus, the unity of the Soul does not exclude the plurality of souls, any more than the unity of essence excludes the plurality of (beings), or that the plurality of intelligibles does not disagree with the existence of the One.
Otherwise, any cognition of intelligibles is made impossible, and the reality of both them and Intelligence itself is destroyed.
Nothing however forbids that the totality of the united intelligibles be grasped by an intuition equally unitary and total.
For the essence of intelligibles being indivisible, and in the same respect ever the same, is contracted into a little, and pure; but an essence divisible and running through bodies constitutes the sensible part.
For intelligibles are the principles of bodily things, but everything is greater than the principle whence it came.
Now the reason is the only criterion of intelligibles; and the understanding is the reason in the mathematics, where intelligibles appear as if in mirrors.
But intelligibles are the first of beings, and from these others derive their subsistence.
But again, not all things that are under the dominion of Providence are indigent of Fate; for intelligibles are exempt from its sway.
But it contains intelligibles after the manner of an image, and receives partibly their impartible forms, such as are uniform variously, and such as are immovable, according to a self-motive condition.
And, alternately, as Providence is to Fate, so are intelligibles to sensibles.
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