Ruhun Tanrılarla Birliği: Mısırlıların Sırları Üzerine

The unity of the gods itself unites souls to it from eternity through their own unities, according to a proximity so intimate and effective that it appears to be a continuity. The divine intellect gives being to the soul through its own essential act of understanding. Therefore, the being of the soul is a certain way of understanding, namely, understanding God, upon whom it depends. Our very being consists in knowing God, because the primary being of the soul is its own intellect, in which being is the same as understanding divine things in a perpetual act. From that primary being are derived the discursive powers of the soul. After the gods, we place daemons, heroes, and pure souls; these three orders are the attendants of the gods. We cannot reach these attendants of the gods, the daemons, heroes, and pure souls, by the usual discursive reasonings of human logic. Instead, it is necessary to rise to an essential and eternal intelligence. Just as the gods are always reached through an innate notion, so the divine powers that follow the gods are only reached when the soul has laid aside its shifting mode of knowledge, which belongs to the rational power.