Ruhun Ölümsüzlüğü Üzerine Platonik Teoloji

If the soul were not immortal, no animal would be more wretched than man. Since the human race, on account of the restlessness of the soul, the weakness of the body, and the need for all things, lives a life on earth that is harder than that of the beasts: if nature had bestowed upon man the same limit of living that it gave to other animals, no animal would be more wretched than man. But since it cannot be that man—who by the worship of God approaches closer to God, the author of beatitude, than all other mortals—is the most wretched of all, and since he can only be made happier after the death of the body, it seems necessary that some light remains for our souls as they depart from this prison. But if human minds do not look back at their own light, enclosed in darkness and a blind prison, from which we are often forced to distrust our own divinity: let us break, I beseech you, celestial souls who desire your celestial homeland, let us break the chains of earthly fetters as soon as possible, so that, lifted by Platonic wings and with God as our guide, we may fly more freely into the ethereal seat, where we will immediately and happily contemplate the excellence of our own kind.