The purification of the Soul is simply to allow it to be alone; it is pure when it keeps no company. - Plotinus

The First, then, should be compared to light, the next [Spirit or Intellect] to the sun, and the third [soul] to the celestial body of the moon, which gets its light from the sun. (V-6-4)

Those incapable of thinking gravely read gravity into frivolties which correspond to their own frivolous nature.

Every evildoer began by despising the Gods; and one not previously corrupt, taking to this contempt, even though in other respects not wholly bad, becomes an evildoer by the very fact.