Post #380

"In the General Discourses did you not hear that all the souls whirled about in all the cosmos - portioned out, as it were - come from the one soul of the all? Many are the changes of these souls, then, some toward a happier lot, others the opposite. The snake-like change into water creatures; the watery change into things of dry land; the dry-land souls change into winged things; the aerial into humans; and human beings, changing into demons, possess the beginning of immortality, and so then they enter the troop of gods, which is really two troops, one wandering, the other fixed. [8] And this is soul most perfect glory. But if a soul that has entered into humans remains vicious, it neither tastes immortality nor shares in the good but turns back and rushes down the road toward the snakes, and this is the sentence pronounced against a vicious soul."