THE STARS AS THE FOLLOWERS OF THE UNIVERSAL KING.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
The universe leads an universal and perfect life, because the good principles (the star-Souls) produce excellency, that is, the more excellent part in every object.245 These principles are subordinate to the Soul that governs the universe, as soldiers are to their general; consequently, (Plato) describes this by the figure of the attendants of Jupiter (the universal Soul) advancing to the contemplation of the intelligible world.