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The Platonic source Beatrice cites as teaching that a soul returns to the same star from which it originally descended into embodied life.
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Timaeus
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...They are portrayed by Holy Church with human visages. That which Timaeus said in Reasoning of Souls does not describe what you have seen,..."
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diagnosis
Jiang frames Timaeus as a soul-world doctrine in which souls come with a purpose and return to the same place after death, a view that threatens to make earthly action seem pointless.
model
Jiang says the student's answer about earthly growth still does not solve Timaeus's problem because, on that model, the soul remains stuck in the same heavenly place after death, whereas Dante's view allows real ascent.
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"...They are portrayed by Holy Church with human visages. That which Timaeus said in Reasoning of Souls does not describe what you have seen,..."
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"Okay. All right. So the idea here is that we all come from the soul world, okay? Okay. So in the soul world, we..."
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"Yeah, well, through life on earth, you can learn and have experiences and then they can shape you. They can shape you and maybe..."
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"But then, well, you could change, right? Like you can change your opinion or yourself. You will."
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"On this world, but back in the old world, the real world, the world of heavens, you're still stuck where you are. But this..."
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"...do we know? Because they're holding two books. This is the Timaeus by Plato where he discusses the realm of the forms. Remember before..."
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