Taking the Reciprocal

[sdi]

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).

Comments

[boccaderlupo]

This is great fodder for reflection.

In this sense, "light" is not physical, but is physical light is analogous to how each level of being illuminates its participant, with perhaps observable, physical light as the material instantiation...?

Wondering if this is not, in a sense, how the "etheric" illumines its participant material nervous system and the latter's various electrical impulses...

[sdi]

"All the fifty years conscious brooding have brought me no closer to the answer to the question, 'What are light quanta?' Of course, today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself." (Albert Einstein, 1951)