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Single Idea 18460
[filed under theme 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
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Full Idea
The divinity is everywhere because it is nowhere.
Gist of Idea
God is nowhere, and hence everywhere
Source
Porphyry (Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind [c.280], 6Enn5 43)
Book Ref
Porphyry: 'Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind', ed/tr. Guthrie,Kenneth [Phanes 1988], p.65
The
22 ideas
from Porphyry
15034
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Are genera and species real or conceptual? bodies or incorporeal? in sensibles or separate from them?
[Porphyry]
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18444
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Civil virtues make us behave benevolently, and thereby unite citizens
[Porphyry]
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18445
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Civil virtues control the passions, and make us conform to our nature
[Porphyry]
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18446
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Purificatory virtues detach the soul completely from the passions
[Porphyry]
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18447
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There are practical, purificatory, contemplative, and exemplary virtues
[Porphyry]
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18448
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We should avoid the pleasures of love, or at least, should not enact our dreams
[Porphyry]
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18449
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Nature binds or detaches body to soul, but soul itself joins and detaches soul from body
[Porphyry]
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18450
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Philosophy has its own mode of death, by separating soul from body
[Porphyry]
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18451
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The presence of the incorporeal is only known by certain kinds of disposition
[Porphyry]
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18453
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Intelligence is aware of itself, so the intelligence is both the thinker and the thought
[Porphyry]
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18454
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Time is the circular movement of the soul
[Porphyry]
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18455
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Some think time is seen at rest, as well as in movement
[Porphyry]
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18452
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Memory is not conserved images, but reproduction of previous thought
[Porphyry]
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18456
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Unified real existence is neither great nor small, though greatness and smallness participate in it
[Porphyry]
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18458
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The soul is bound to matter by the force of its own disposition
[Porphyry]
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18457
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Individual souls are all connected, though distinct, and without dividing universal Soul
[Porphyry]
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18459
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Diversity arises from the power of unity
[Porphyry]
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18462
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The soul is everywhere and nowhere in the body, and must be its cause
[Porphyry]
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18460
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God is nowhere, and hence everywhere
[Porphyry]
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18461
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Everything existing proceeds from divinity, and is within divinity
[Porphyry]
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18463
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Successful introspection reveals the substrate along with the object of thought
[Porphyry]
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18464
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Justice is each person fulfilling his function
[Porphyry]
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