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Patreon:   / americanesoteric   Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Collin-Conkwright Instagram:   / american.esoteric   TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - 1:36 The Dream-Vision 1:37 - 11:26 Scipio Ascends 11:27 - 25:16 Macrobius' Commentary 25:17 - 26:21 Scipio's Death SOURCES: Cicero, M.T. De re publica. (Ed. James E.G. Zetzel), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995; Bk. VI, vs. 9-29. Translated by Niall McCloskey, 1998. Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Commentary on the Dream of Scipio. Translated by William Harris Stahl, Columbia University Press, 1952. Taylor T. (Tr. & Comm.). Select Works of Porphyry: Endnote 1 “On the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs.” (1ed. 1823); Frome: The Prometheus Trust, 1999 (2nd ed.); pp. 162-63; [Macrobius’ 12th chapter of his comment on Scipio’s dream.] Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 220-25. *a quote of interest in Ramsay's Universal Principles: “The Roman philosophers adopted the same doctrine of a pre-existent, degraded, and re-established state. The Orphic, Pythagorean, and Platonic doctrine about the descent and ascent, first-life, fall, and restoration of souls, is thus explained by Macrobius in his commentary upon Scipio’s dream. (b) "There are two sorts of deaths, the one of the animated machine, and the other of the animating principle. The one happens when the soul is separated from the body; the other, when the soul detaches itſelf, from the simple and indivisible fountain of nature and falls into a mortal body. Hence the body was called by the Greeks Δεσμὸς or the chain of the soul; as Καταχθόνιος, or Τύμβος, the tomb of the soul; and by Cicero both one and the other, being the prison in which the soul is buried. The universe is divided into two parts; the immoveable fixed heavens, and the sphere of the wandering ſtars. The firſt is named by some, the ætherial earth, and the primitive abode of souls, where they lived happy and free from the contagion of matter. Souls, who from this high place and perpetual ſeat of light, look down upon earth with a secret, hidden deſire and appetite, are drawn downwards, by the weight of their terrestrial thoughts. Their spiritual nature, however, is not all of a sudden cloathed upon with a gross, clammy, clayish body; but by degrees they fall into the planetary regions, where they contract in each sphere, ætherial vehicles, or ærial cloathings, till they be insensibly reconciled to terrestrial bodies. Thus, they undergo several different deaths, in paſſing through different planets, till they fall at laſt into that death, which upon earth is called life. This dying state of the soul does not laſt always. Its transient temporal immersion into matter, does not deprive it of the principle of immortality: for so soon as it deserves to be purged from the contagion of vice, it returns again to its first state, and is restored to the light of eternal life.” - Macrobius (in Chevalier Ramsay’s Principles, II, 363-4. [1751]) FOOTNOTE: Macrobius, De Somnio Scipion. lib. I. cap. xi. xii.