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Therefore virtue requires only that we desire it, since it is in us, and arises from us. For when the soul maintains its intellectual part according to nature, virtue exists. And [the soul] maintains it according to nature, whenever it remains as it came into being, and it came into being beautiful and perfectly straight. ... Being upright, for the soul, is [to have] its νοέρον ('the intellectual part') according to its nature, as it was created. But when it turns aside, and becomes distorted with respect to nature, then it is called the evil of the soul. ~Greek Vita Antonii 20.5-7 (2x), ed. G.J.M.Bartelink, Sources chretiennes 400, Paris 1994, trans. Gregory A. Smith
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comment on Hesiod's myth:
>> Hephaestus makes the woman out of *earth and water*, to look like a goddess. She is sent as a bride to Epimetheus, stupid brother of the smart Prometheus, although he'd been warned not to take any gifts from the gods. >>
If you follow it out, a la Peter Kingsley's Empedocles,
Now hear the fourfold roots of everything:
Enlivening Hera, Hades, shining Zeus
And Nestis, moistening mortal springs with tears
trans. "John Opsopaus"
Hesiod's version seems a misogynistic twisting of Persephone (Nestis, Night), who is *the* Goddess, as in "Apollo shares his power with Night." Hesiod is on the way away from accord with Nature, whose true essence is the paradoxical union of light/dark.
And a sharp turn on the way to being lost and blinded by the light for 2,000 years...
*clarissa graphics from the dvd.
