I would have to dig up the references on this one (may be Plotinus), but there is a certain view where the Demiurge generates Mind (the Forms (?) or Divine Model), which then generates Soul (the World-Soul).
With regard to Soul and motion, I am going to go out on a limb and suggest the word "animation" ("anima" + tion). In this age, the physicalists track things back to purely mechanistic ends (the firing of neurons, et al.), whereas to Sallustius and thinkers in this vein, the physical (the body) requires Soul to give it motion, to animate it. Body does not generate mind (which lies "above"), nor Soul, which uses the body (the physical) as an instrument.
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Date: 2021-12-24 12:22 pm (UTC)With regard to Soul and motion, I am going to go out on a limb and suggest the word "animation" ("anima" + tion). In this age, the physicalists track things back to purely mechanistic ends (the firing of neurons, et al.), whereas to Sallustius and thinkers in this vein, the physical (the body) requires Soul to give it motion, to animate it. Body does not generate mind (which lies "above"), nor Soul, which uses the body (the physical) as an instrument.