Neoplatonism in 5×5×5 Words

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Every thing pursues that which is good to it. This means that each thing's good must exist prior to the thing itself, since otherwise it could not depend on it. From this basic principle, we extrapolate various levels of being based on what lives there and what qualities they possess:

• The World of Matter: Humans lack contentment, and so pursue it.
• The World of Imagination: Daimons are inherently content, but not self-sufficient, and so pursue self-sufficiency.
• The World of Soul: Angels are inherently self-sufficient, but are bounded by their respective natures, and so pursue unboundedness.
• The World of Spirit: God is unbounded, but not universal, and so pursues universality.
• The All: Goodness is universal. Being universal, it has no pursuits, and so the process terminates.