Taking the Reciprocal

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Paraphrasing Plotinus, the body is matter to the soul, the soul is matter to the Intellect, and the Intellect is matter to the One. But if we are correct in the association of the soul to light, then we can go the other way, too: the One is light to the Intellect, the Intellect is light to the soul, and, as we have said, the soul is light to the body.

In many ways, the relation of each level of being to the next reminds me strongly of yang (among other things, sky and light) to yin (among other things, earth and darkness).