The Timaeus of Plato

TIMAIOS.
as are of a contrary nature : and should they master these
his allotted
passions, they would live in righteousness if otherwise, in un-
;
righteousness. And he who lived well throughout
once more to a habitation in his
time should be conveyed
kindred star, and there should enjoy a blissful and congenial
life: but failing of this, he should pass in the second incarnation
into the nature of a woman ;
and if in this condition he
still would not turn from the evil of his ways, then, according
to the manner of his wickedness, he should ever be changed
into the nature of some beast in such form of incarnation as
fitted his disposition, and should not rest
from the weariness of
these transformations, until by following the revolution that is
within him of the same and uniform, he should overcome by
reason all that burden that afterwards clung around him of fire
and water and air and earth, a troublous and senseless mass,
and should return once more to the form of his first and best
nature.
And when he had ordained all these things for them, to the
end that he might be guiltless of all the evil that should be in
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