All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another. - Plotinus

Knowledge has three degrees — opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, logic; of the third, insight.

For the life it leads is dark with evil, sunk in manifold death. It sees no longer what the soul should see. It can no longer rest within itself but is forever being dragged towards the external, the lower, the dark.

Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.