Book 3
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TheHere begins the second appendix περὶ τῶν Πλάτωνι ἀρεσκόντων, §§ 67-80. It should be observed that there is absolutely no trace of Neo-Platonist tendencies. Cf. Plato, Tim. 42 e-43 a, 69 a. doctrines he approved are these. He held that the soul is immortal, that by transmigration it puts on many bodies,Cf. Plato, Tim. 42 b sqq., 90 e. and that it has a numerical first principle, whereas the first principle of the body is geometricalCf. Plato, Tim. 54 a sqq.; and he defined soul as the idea of vital breath diffused in all directions. He held that it is self-moved and tripartite, the rational part of it having its seat in the head, the passionate part about the heart, while the appetitive is placed in the region of the navel and the liver.Cf. Plato, Tim. 69 c sqq., 89 e..
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And from the centre outwards it encloses the body on all sides in a circle, and is compounded of elements, and, being divided at harmonic intervals, it forms two circles which touch one another twice; and the interior circle, being slit six times over, makes seven circles in all. And this interior circle moves by way of the diagonal to the left, and the other by way of the side to the right. Hence also the one is supreme, being a single circle, for the other interior circle was divided; the former is the circle of the Same, the latter that of the Other, whereby he means that the motion of the soul is the motion of the universe together with the revolutions of the planets.Cf. Plato, Tim. 36 d-37 c..
