Phaidros Şerhi: İlahi Çılgınlık

He shows that madness is not simply base, but there is also a certain divine madness. And having divided madness itself into four parts: prophecy, initiation, poetic, and erotic, presided over by four gods: Apollo, Dionysus, the Muses, and Eros. Listing how many goods are given from these: of prophecy, of initiation, and of poetry. And these things are to show that the name of madness is not base. Then, intending to speak concerning the love sent down to us, first he defines this part, so that we might know according to which proper part he says these things. And since the lover is mad, he defines love as a divine madness, according to the recollection of that same beauty, as there is a recollection which would not happen if the soul were not immortal. He speaks briefly concerning the immortality of the soul. Being bodily yet invisible, he reveals its form, saying that it resembles a naturally winged team of horses and a charioteer. He considers the soul to be winged. He says that sometimes it casts off its wings, and sometimes it grows feathers, speaking concerning the ascent and descent and the reincarnation of souls.