On the Mysteries

...which is thus supposed because it is willing. And [the order] of the interwoven, the soul, having shared in the intellectual order and ethereal spirit by impulse; and to them the middle of the wholes or the living creature of the seer is prepared; but that which is described by the part; and participates in this partially. And for them to sprout forth upon all beings the causal powers and the supremacy, unreasonably insubstantial; but that which bridles all and illuminates, until the uses of vision. Such being the differences, in the infinite, it is not necessary now to speak of the things that are the intermediate of them; the last are those of the demons and heroes to men. Being near to the limit of the infinite; having similarity toward each, and departing from both toward the middle; and to weave a mixed similarity and communion from them. And to them also being interwoven with the more partial; such things as are to be understood as the bodies of the first races?; not, however, of the dispositions of you, they stretch out, it itself toward measures. Any [body] that carries toward order, such as the earthly toward the ethereal; of demons toward the ethereal; perhaps the cause, he says, is the relation of those who are willing; but the order, such as of the gathered stars, the primal [souls], lies unworthily of the divine races. Which absolutely to all, and from themselves, exist from themselves; and of these it is not possible to speak of the bodies. For before making their own first causes; and it appears as a strange absurdity; for [it is] to be enslaved to those and to serve toward generation; why are the souls of the incontinent persuaded in the bodies, from which [they are], itself ruling; there is therefore no other thing to the bodies; since as if from its own cause, not in the [extent] to be able to receive some swaddling clothes, as it were; but from the bodies [they do] not receive; so that not that opinion to those who have no bodies; but as [if] into the possession of the body, or as a prison, or a leading,

You do not know, but the [judgment] concerning the difference as [it is] everywhere [is].

the evil heresies