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Following him Anacharsis said that as Thales had set forth the excellent hypothesis that soul exists in all the most dominant and most important parts of the universe, Cf. Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, vol i. p. 12 (A 22). there is no proper ground for wonder that the most excellent things are brought Athenaeus (466 c) says a golden cup was brought out of the sea by Enalus. b Cf. Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, vol. i. p. 12 to pass by the will of God. For the body, he continued, is the soul’s instrument, and the soul is God’s instrument; Cf. Moralia, 404 B. and just as the body has many movements of its own, but the most, and most excellent, from the soul, so the soul performs some actions by its own instinct, but in others it yields itself to God’s use for Him to direct it and turn it in whatsoever course He may desire, since it is the most adaptable of all instruments. For it is a dreadful mistake to assume that, on the one hand, fire is God’s instrument, and wind and water also, and clouds and rain, by means of which He preserves and fosters many a thing, and ruins and destroys many another, but that, on the other hand, He never as yet makes any use whatever of living creatures to accomplish any one of His purposes. Nay, it is far more likely that the living, being dependent on God’s power, serve Him and are responsive to His movements even more than bows are responsive to the Scythians or lyres and flutes to the Greeks.
