6 then so works, that now it moves and feels, as a sea-fungus does; and then it proceeds 57 to organize the powers of which it is the germ. Now is displayed, son, now is diffused the virtue, which issues from the heart of the begetter, 60 where nature on all the members is intent. “But how from an animal it becomes a rational being, not seest thou as yet; this is such a point 63 that one wiser than thou it made once to err, so that in his teaching he separated from the soul the potential intellect, 66 because by it he saw no organ assumed. Open to the truth which is coming thy breast, and know that, so soon as in the embryo 69 the articulation of the brain is perfect, the Primal Motor turns to it with joy over such art of nature, and breathes into it 72 a new spirit replete with virtue, which that which it finds active there draws into its own substance, and becomes one single soul 75 which lives and feels and on itself circles. And that thou mayst the less wonder at my words, consider the warmth of the sun which becomes wine, 78 combining with the juice that from the vine flows. And when Lachesis has no more thread, this soul is loosed from the flesh, and virtually 81 bears away with itself both the human and the divine;
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