NOR IS THE BODY A VASE, FOR PROXIMATE TRANSMISSION OF THE SOUL.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
Nor is the soul in the body as in a vase. In this case, the body would be inanimate, and would contain the soul as in a vase or locality. If the soul be considered as concentrated in herself and as communicating to the body something of herself by "close transmission" (as the Stoics would say), that which the soul will transmit to this vase would for her become something lost.