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The higher Platonic world is described as eternal, immutable, immaculate, and perfect, while the lower world is marked by death and pain.
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Higher World
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"But this is all perfection. And from this higher world comes the lesser world, the reality we live in. So everything that we see..."
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"...in our world, and they abandon the spiritual pleasures of a higher world, okay? It's a, it sounds like pity, it sounds like um,..."
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