Jun. 29th, 2022

sdi: Oil painting of the Heliconian Muse whispering inspiration to Hesiod. (Default)

Since the material world is a subset of the ætherial world (e.g. you can only realize a fraction of the ideas you have), and the ætherial world is a subset of the empyrean world (e.g. you can only think the things that are available to be thought), heaven is much, much bigger than the earth.

Extending this up and down the Neoplatonic cosmos, I guess it'd look like this?

The One
infinite
The Ideal
finite but unbounded (e.g. "grows" faster than anyone could ever hope to explore, so it might as well be infinite)
The World
finite and bounded, but vast
The Empyrean
big
The Ætherial
middle-sized
The Material
small
The Submaterial (e.g. realized formal systems, computers, "game worlds")
tiny

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